yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
tit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tit, titte, tette, from Old English tit, titt, from Proto-West Germanic *titt, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), of expressive origin.
Perhaps related to an original meaning “to suck”; compare Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-y-. Doublet of teat, which was borrowed from Old French.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tit, Dutch tiet, dialectal Dutch tet, German Zitze, Titte, Hunsrik Ditz, Yiddish ציצע (tsitse).
Inflected forms:
form: tits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person's breast or nipple.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
vulgar
examples: I have enjoyed taking to my writing bureau and writing about poverty, benefit reform and the coalition government in the manner of a shit Dickens, or Orwell, but with tits.
Sanch tossed his head back, threw open his shirt, cupped his beanbag-shaped male breasts and jiggled them at us. Ford and I were laughing but Kat said, "I think they're the most beautiful tits."
Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.
gloss: An animal's teat or udder.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: A large bowl of suckulent ^([sic]) raspberries with clotted yellow cream fresh from the goat's tit on the diamond and ruby-studded glass end-table.
gloss: An idiot; a fool.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!
I know a lot of tits, Guv'nor. But I don't know any quite as fucking stupid as these two.
“What did you say to the cops?”
“I told them everything about the smuggling ring.”
“Why the fuck did you do that?”
“They were nice to me.”
“They’re always nice to people they want to get information from, you dumb tit.”
John Watson (to Sherlock Holmes): It's Lestrade. Says they're all coming over here right now. Queuing up to slap on the handcuffs, every single officer you ever made feel like a tit. Which is a lot of people.
“I asked Nandor and Colin Robinson to come with me on the first day because I didn't want the class to look too empty. But now I cannot get those two tits to leave.”
gloss: A police officer; a "tithead".
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
vulgar
Related words: titty
tittie
Derived words: arse about tit
arse over tit
bitchtits
bitch tits
calm your tits
cold as a witch's tit
cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra
conetit
electric tit
get one's tits in a wringer
get on someone's tits
get your tits out for the lads
hind tit
keep one's tits on
man tit
mantit
off one's tits
press tits
suck hind tit
suck tits
sugar tit
sugartits
tit about
tit fuck
titjob
tit juice
titless
tit mag
titman
tits and ass
tits and bums
tits out for the lads
titsucker
tits-up
tits up
titsy
tit tape
tittie
titty
tit up
tit wank
titwank
useful as tits on a bull
useless as tits on a boar hog
useless as tits on a bull
Translations:
sparrow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sparwe, sparowe, from Old English spearwa, from Proto-West Germanic *sparwō, from Proto-Germanic *sparwô, from Proto-Indo-European *spḗr (“sparrow”).
Cognate with Dutch spreeuw (“starling”), Alemannic German Spar (“sparrow”), German Sperling (“sparrow”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål spurv (“sparrow”), Norwegian Nynorsk sporv (“sparrow”), Swedish sparv (“sparrow”), Breton frao (“crow”), Tocharian A ṣpārāñ, Ancient Greek ψάρ (psár, “starling”), as well as Italian sparviero and Italian sparviere (“hawk”).
Inflected forms:
form: sparrows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
pos: noun
examples: Man progresses generally, not both legs at once like a sparrow, but by putting one leg forward first, and then the other.
In a poem by Sappho, Aphrodite is represented as riding in a car drawn by sparrows.
gloss: A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of the family Passerellidae (or Emberizidae, under classification systems that subsume the New World sparrows under Emberizidae), comprising small New World songbirds.
pos: noun
gloss: Generically, any small, nondescript bird.
pos: noun
gloss: A quick-witted, lively person.
pos: noun
tags: London
UK
examples: cockney sparrow
I take it there 's scarcely a happier fellow alive than your honest town-bred smoke-dried cockney sparrow.
Professional cockney sparrow Martine has acted since childhood.
Derived words: olive sparrow
rock sparrow
sparrowcide
sparrowdom
sparrow dominoes
sparrow fart
sparrow-fart
sparrow grass
sparrowgrass
sparrow-grass
sparrowhawk
sparrow hawk
sparrowish
sparrowlark
sparrow-lark
sparrowless
sparrowlike
sparrowling
sparrow mumbling
sparrow owl
sparrow-proof
sparrow shot
sparrows' wedding
sparrow weaver
sparrow-weaver
sparrowwort
sparrowy
Translations:
butterfly
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
Proto-Hellenic *gʷous
Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs)
Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *tuh₂rós
Proto-Hellenic *tūrós
Ancient Greek τυρός (turós)
Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron)bor.
Latin būtȳrumbor.
Proto-West Germanic *buterā
Old English butere
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ
Proto-West Germanic *fleugā
Old English flēoge
Old English buterflēoge
Middle English boterflye
English butterfly
From Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye, from Old English buterflēoge, equivalent to butter + fly. Cognate with Dutch botervlieg, German Butterfliege (“butterfly”). The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey-thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-excretor”)). Compare also German Schmetterling from Schmetten (“cream”), German Low German Bottervögel (“butterfly”, literally “butter-fowl”). More at butter, fly.
An alternate theory suggests that the first element may have originally been Old English butor- (“beater”), a mutation of bēatan (“to beat”), but this would not explain the cognates in other languages or the other names formed with milk products.
Superseded non-native Middle English papilion (“butterfly”) borrowed from Old French papillon (“butterfly”).
Compound parts: butter
fly
Inflected forms:
form: butterflies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: butterflying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: butterflied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: butterflied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: butterflied shrimp
Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.
gloss: To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After everyone had obeyed his commands, the lieutenant motioned for two medics that now appeared to enter the room and attend to Dr. Carter. They bandaged him up, butterflying some of the deeper gashes and gave him a couple of shots.
gloss: To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Pearl Harbor not happening would've butterflied Taylor Swift.
Related words: caterpillar
flutterby
moth
Translations:
rumor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumeur, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewH- (“to shout, to roar”).
Inflected forms:
form: rumors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rumour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: rumors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rumoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rumored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rumored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rumour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Senses:
gloss: A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
examples: There's a rumor going round that he's going to get married.
vile rumor
a rumor going round
vicious rumors
spread a rumor
gloss: Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: They say he used to be a thief, but that's just rumor.
gloss: Report, news, information in general.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
uncountable
examples: It stands a city aloof. There hath been no rumour of it—I alone have dreamed of it, and I may not be sure that my dreams are true.
gloss: Fame, reputation.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Clamor, din, outcry.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To tell a rumor about; to gossip.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
usually
examples: John is rumored to be next in line for a promotion.
Synonyms: bruit
buzz
tidbit
fame
moot
on dit
rumor
sough
muttering
noise
tale
word
word on the street
word on the wire
whisper
whispering
Related words: rumour has it
the story goes
tattle
Translations:
lang: Bengali
word: গুজব
roman: gujob
lang: Czech
word: drby
lang: Dutch
word: geruchten
lang: Finnish
word: huhu
lang: Finnish
word: kuulopuhe
lang: German
word: Gerüchte
lang: German
word: Gerede
lang: Greek
word: φήμες
roman: fímes
lang: Greek
word: διαδόσεις
roman: diadóseis
lang: Japanese
word: 噂
roman: uwasa
lang: Latvian
word: baumas
lang: Portuguese
word: rumor
lang: Portuguese
word: boato
lang: Romanian
word: zvon
lang: Russian
word: слу́хи
roman: slúxi
lang: Russian
word: молва́
roman: molvá
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fathann
lang: Slovene
word: govorica
lang: Spanish
word: rumorología
lang: Spanish
word: habladurías
lang: Swedish
word: rykte
lang: Tamil
word: புரளி
roman: puraḷi
lang: Telugu
word: పుకారు
roman: pukāru
lang: Tibetan
word: དཀྲོག་གཏམ
roman: dkrog gtam
lang: Turkish
word: söylenti
lang: Turkish
word: rivayet
rumour
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumour, rumor, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, roar”).
Inflected forms:
form: rumours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rumours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rumouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rumoured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rumoured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland spelling of rumor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide
There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
"Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.
I myself gave support to the summoning of the Estates General ... as merely mistaken . Similarly it might be held that Paradise originated in a rumour invented in hell to make society the more interesting . ' ' We need a saviour .
Dame Rumour outstrides me yet again.
gloss: A prolonged, indistinct noise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Prithee, listen well; / I heard a bustling rumour like a fray, / And the wind brings it from the Capitol.
gloss: Commonwealth standard spelling of rumor.
pos: verb
examples: Two of the four main routes over the Border were rumoured to be threatened with withdrawal of, or heavy cuts in, passenger services.
Derived words: rumourmonger
Translations:
hierarchy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ierarchie, jerarchie, from Old French ierarchie, jerarchie, from Late Latin ierarchia, from Latin hierarchia, from Ancient Greek ἱεραρχία (hierarkhía, “rule of a high priest”), from ἱεράρχης (hierárkhēs, “high priest”), from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”), equivalent to hiero- + -archy. The H was re-added c. 1500 due to influence from Classical Latin.
Affixes: hiero-
-archy
Inflected forms:
form: hierarchies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
pos: noun
examples: Gay men and bisexuals were blamed for the [AIDS] epidemic for much the same reason that the church hierarchy in the Middle Ages accused Jewish people of creating bubonic plague by "poisoning the wells."
The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
gloss: A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.
pos: noun
examples: Social defeat arises in strict social hierarchies in which the few dominate the many. Overcrowding exacerbates the many ills of social defeat within these social hierarchies based on dominance.
gloss: Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
pos: noun
examples: ... the surviving portions provide enough detail to outline its principal features: the hierarchy of beings to whom his liturgy was to be addressed (we previously considered Plethon's hierarchy of gods in our examination of his Summary[…]
Related words: hierarch
hierarchic
hierarchical
hierarchically
hierarchization
hierarchize
holarchy
thearchy
Derived words: antihierarchy
arithmetical hierarchy
arithmetic hierarchy
Chomsky hierarchy
command hierarchy
hierarchial
hierarchism
hierarchy of effects
Kleene hierarchy
Kleene-Mostowski hierarchy
Lévy hierarchy
phonological hierarchy
polyhierarchy
subhierarchy
superhierarchy
time hierarchy theorem
Translations:
proportionate
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōportiōnātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, proportion + -ate.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more proportionate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most proportionate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: proportionates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: proportionating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: proportionated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: proportionated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In proportion; proportional; commensurable.
pos: adj
examples: What is proportionate to his transgression.
gloss: Harmonious and symmetrical.
pos: adj
gloss: To make proportionate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: equiproportionate
improportionate
overproportionate
proportionately
proportionateness
Translations:
outcome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: education
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
sports
Etymology: From out + come.
Compound parts: out
come
Inflected forms:
form: outcomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process.
pos: noun
examples: A quality automobile is the outcome of the work of skilled engineers and thousands of workers.
How far are you willing to reach? / While you're coveting outcomes that you can't achieve / Now you're on a mission, but you won't complete / Shouldn't hold on to me, hold on to me / Try to let go of me, let go of me / Of what you'll never be / You'll hang yourself on that leash / Moral mind of a fool that never learns
gloss: The result of a random trial. An element of a sample space.
pos: noun
examples: Three is a possible outcome of tossing a six-sided die.
gloss: The anticipated or desired results or evidence of a learning experience.
pos: noun
examples: learning outcomes
The outcomes of this course are outlined in your syllabus.
gloss: The scoreline; the result.
pos: noun
examples: Spain failed to move through the gears despite exerting control for lengthy spells and a measure of perspective must be applied immediately to the outcome.
Derived words: outcome delivery
outcome variable
Translations:
pheasant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English fesaunt, fesant, from Old French fesan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φᾱσιανός (phāsianós), meaning “[bird] of the river Φᾶσις (Phâsis)”, from where, it was supposed, the bird spread to the west. Replaced native Old English wōrhana, a variant of mōrhana. More at moorhen.
Inflected forms:
form: pheasants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.
Or sometimes, passing too near a sequestered copse, the shy tenants were startled, and the superb plumage of the pheasant dashed aside the branches, and the stately bird soared up on rattling wing.
gloss: The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Tables were laid with cold pheasant, watercressy finger foods, sweets sufficient to give the Greater Raleigh Area sugar shock.
Célestin Lainé sat on the edge of the bed, a tray on his lap, eating pheasant and roast vegetables with a red wine reduction.
Bring a dish of berries with cream to me there. Bread, too. And a slice of pheasant.
Derived words: Amherst pheasant
argus pheasant
Billingsgate pheasant
blood pheasant
cheer pheasant
Chinese pheasant
college pheasant
common pheasant
crow pheasant
Elliot's pheasant
golden pheasant
green pheasant
Impeyan pheasant
Japanese pheasant
kalege pheasant
kalij pheasant
khalege pheasant
Lady Amherst's pheasant
peacock-pheasant
peacock pheasant
pea-pheasant
pheasant berry
Pheasant coronavirus
pheasant coucal
pheasant cuckoo
pheasantless
pheasantlike
pheasant pigeon
pheasantry
pheasant's eye
pheasant shell
Pheasants Nest
pheasant-tailed jacana
pheasant under glass
pheasantwood
reed pheasant
Reeves's pheasant
ring-necked pheasant
sea pheasant
sea-pheasant
silver pheasant
Swinhoe's pheasant
Translations:
capercaillie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots capercailzie (for the -z-, see Mackenzie and tailzie), a corruption of Scottish Gaelic capall (“horse”) + coille (“of the woods”).
Inflected forms:
form: capercaillies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: capercailye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: capercaillye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: capercailzie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: capercally
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large, black grouse of the genus Tetrao in the bird family Phasianidae, especially the western capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus.
pos: noun
Translations:
blackbird
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English blakebird, blacbrid (“ouzel; Eurasian blackbird”), equivalent to black + bird.
Compound parts: black
bird
Inflected forms:
form: blackbirds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blackbirds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blackbirding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blackbirded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blackbirded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.
pos: noun
gloss: A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird).
pos: noun
gloss: A native of the South Pacific islands.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
historical
slang
gloss: To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force
pos: verb
examples: “At the same time, island communities — especially in coastal areas, where the effect of population loss was often enormous — sometimes retaliated against blackbirding raids.”
Derived words: blackbirder
blackbirding
blackbirdlike
Blackbird Leys
skunk blackbird
Michaelmas blackbird
Bolivian blackbird
red-shouldered blackbird
red-winged blackbird
tawny-shouldered blackbird
tricolored blackbird
yellow-shouldered blackbird
Agelaius
yellow-winged blackbird
unicolored blackbird
pale-eyed blackbird
Agelasticus
scarlet-headed blackbird
chestnut-capped blackbird
yellow-hooded blackbird
Chrysomus
Forbes's blackbird
austral blackbird
Curaeus
scrub blackbird
Cuban blackbird
melodious blackbird
Dives
Brewer's blackbird
rusty blackbird
Euphagus
Chopi blackbird
oriole blackbird
Jamaican blackbird
red-breasted blackbird
white-browed blackbird
Sturnella
yellow-headed blackbird
saffron-cowled blackbird
New World blackbird
grey-winged blackbird
white-collared blackbird
Indian blackbird
Tibetan blackbird
Turdus
Old World blackbird
Translations:
vole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term vole mouse, lit. “field mouse”, was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.
Inflected forms:
form: voles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.
pos: noun
Translations:
buffalo
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). Doublet of bubale and buffle.
Inflected forms:
form: buffaloes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: buffaloing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: buffaloed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: buffaloed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hunt buffalo.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
transitive
examples: I'm just gonna let you have it. Probably in the midst of a kiss. Right when you think everything’s been healed up. Right in the moment when you're sure you've got me buffaloed. That's when you'll die.
The nontechnical administrator should never be buffaloed by the esoteric vocabulary and the endless jargon of the computer expert.
He was speaking to an indifferent audience of pale polite faces, in an overheated space on the Northern edge of Europe, a subcontinent whose natives for a few passing centuries had bullied and buffaloed the rest of the world.
If nonfiction is where you do your best writing, or your best teaching of writing, don't be buffaloed into the idea that it's an inferior species.
gloss: To pistol-whip.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Whereupon the twelve-inch barrel of the Buntline Special was laid alongside and just underneath the Rachal hatbrim most effectively. The buffaloed cattleman dropped to the walk, unconscious.
He walked arrogant and scornful among the Texans and cavalrymen whom he hazed and buffaloed with the barrels of his guns when they got out of line.
Translations:
dromedary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English dromedari, dromedarie (“dromedary; any camel”) [and other forms], from Old French dromedaire, from Late Latin dromedārius (“kind of camel”), from Latin *dromadārius, from dromas, dromadis (“dromedary”) + -ārius (suffix forming nouns denoting agents of use). Dromas and dromadis are derived from Ancient Greek δρομᾰ́ς (dromắs, “running; dromedary”), an ellipsis of δρομὰς κάμηλος (dromàs kámēlos, “running camel”), from δρόμος (drómos, “race, running; race course, track”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *drem- (“to run”).
Inflected forms:
form: dromedaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dromedarie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The single-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius).
pos: noun
examples: The duke in his schelde and dreches no lengere, / Drawes hym a dromedarie, with dredfulle knyghtez; [...]
The Dromedarie, Camell, Horſe, and Aſſe, / For loade and carriage doth a Sheepe ſurpaſſe: [...]
[T]he Dromedarie [...] who is marvellous ſwift, and will run an hundred miles in a day; but the Germanes call a dull and ſlow man a Dromedary, [...]
I went to see a Dromedarie, a very monstrous beaste, much like the Camel but larger.
Oh, thou Dromedary, thou Founder'd Mule, without a Pack-ſaddle; or what other foul Beaſt ſhall I call thee, for Man thou art not, nor haſt not been to me, Heaven knows the time when? Art not thou aſham'd to ſee me, thou Nincompoop?
Here we alighted, drank ourſelves, and gave our dromedaries to drink as much as they would; then we filled all our veſſels, made on purpoſe for carriage, and took in a much greater proportion of water than we had done proviſions.
[T]he camel has two bunches upon his back, whereas the dromedary has but one; the latter alſo, is neither ſo large, nor ſo ſtrong, as the camel. Theſe two races, however, produce with each other, and the mixed breed formed between them is conſidered the beſt, the moſt patient, and the moſt indefatigable of all the kind.
gloss: Any swift riding camel.
pos: noun
examples: [T]hou art like a ſwift dromedarie, that runneth by his wayes.
gloss: Referring to a biphasic clinical course of poliomyelitis, typically occurring in children, characterized by a minor illness, followed by an asymptomatic period of several days before the onset of a major illness involving the central nervous system.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
dated
examples: The untreated cases have been arranged in three groups according to the clinical course. The first group, called the dromedary group, shows the curious phenomenon of two different periods of illness with an interval of well-being. […] Because of the two distinct groups or humps of symptoms, the analogy to the arrangement of the dromedary’s back was taken to express the type figuratively.
Related words: ship of the desert
Derived words: dromedarian
dromedarist
Translations:
ibex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Latin ībex (“chamois”), possibly from Iberian or Aquitanian; akin to Old Spanish bezerro (“bull”) (modern becerro (“yearling”)).
Inflected forms:
form: ibex
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ibexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ibices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ibecks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.
pos: noun
gloss: An imaginary creature with serrated horns, somewhat similar to the heraldic antelope.
pos: noun
Derived words: Alpine ibex
bezoar ibex
Iberian ibex
Nubian ibex
Pyrenean ibex
Siberian ibex
Spanish ibex
Translations:
beaver
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: backgammon
games
Etymology: From Middle English bever, from Old English befer, from Proto-West Germanic *bebru, from Proto-Germanic *bebruz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus (“beaver”).
Cognate with West Frisian bever, Dutch bever, French bièvre, German Biber, dialectal Swedish bjur. Non-Germanic cognates include Welsh befer, Latin fiber, Lithuanian bẽbras, Russian бобр (bobr), Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬭𐬀 (bauura), and Sanskrit बभ्रु (bábhru, “mongoose; ichneumon”).
Slang use to refer to a woman evolved from use to refer to pubic hair, which evolved from use to refer to beards, which evolved from use to refer to the furry animal or its fur.
Inflected forms:
form: beavers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beavering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beavered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beavered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
pos: verb
examples: Without these attentions the woad will not beaver well, a term descriptive of the fineness of the capillary filaments into which it draws out when broken between the finger and thumb.
gloss: To work hard.
pos: verb
examples: When A. G. Dickens published his English Reformation in 1964 the archival beavering of a generation of graduate students was given its imprimatur in the claim to understand how the English people felt about religious change—largely, according to Dickens, positively.
gloss: To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
pos: verb
gloss: To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Beavering of foreign visitors does not count. This is a rule, but it is never carried out.
Derived words: beaver away
Translations:
hedgehog
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English heyghoge; equivalent to hedge + hog. Eclipsed non-native Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog”), from Old French hirchoun, herichon (“hedgehog”); and displaced earlier Middle English il, from Old English īl, iġil (“hedgehog”).
In the philosophical sense, from the 1953 essay The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin.
Compare typologically Korean 고슴도치 (goseumdochi) (<<+ Middle Korean 돝 (twoth, “pig, swine”)).
Compound parts: hedge
hog
Inflected forms:
form: hedgehogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hedgehogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hedgehogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hedgehogged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make use of a hedgehog barricade as a defensive maneuver.
pos: verb
examples: Hedgehogging means — let us call a spade a spade — that we're were encircled: It's something that has been forced upon us, a predicament from which we ought to try to escape as fast as possible.
Luettwitz hedgehogged his regiment and held his positions until the rest of the division arrived two days later.
During the night of May 27 the 90th Light Division hedgehogged south of El Adem.
gloss: To array with spiky projections like the quills of a hedgehog.
pos: verb
examples: All around were styrofoam cups hedgehogged with butts, and the threebar electric heater was encrusted with bits of charcoaled tobacco and frazzled stands of hair where people had stooped down to spark up.
The walls were pockmarked with fragments of stone and hedgehogged with jagged daggers of glass, while in the street below there were sickening splodges on the pavement which a workman was covering with sawdust.
I think they're from different faculties,” I reply, taking a step back to peruse the table filled with assorted snacks, my hand hovering over the hedgehogged tray of cheese and pineapple cocktail sticks.
gloss: To curl up into a defensive ball.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: You try for his head, but he's hedgehogged round now, elbows beside his ears and you can't get him.
I stayed hedgehogged in my ball, listening for movement and trying to ignore the cramp in my legs, the ache in my gut and — encore — the throbbing in my temples.
The dead man was lying on a pile of the blankets, curled up, his hands interlocked behind his head, knees drawn up to his chest. Hedgehogged, just like the others.
Related words: echidna
porcupine
erinaceous
Translations:
hare
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hare, from Old English hara (“hare”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasō ~ *haʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *hesô, from *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂s-én-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian hazze, Dutch haas, German Hase, Norwegian and Swedish hare, Icelandic heri), Old English hasu, Middle High German heswe (“pale, dull”); also Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), Latin cānus (“white”), cascus (“old”), Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”) and Sanskrit शश (śaśa, “hare”).
Inflected forms:
form: hare
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: haring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of several plant-eating mammals of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The hare has a reputation for exciting desire. Hare soup is credited with a particular aphrodisiac value.
gloss: The meat from this animal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Ashe bit absent-mindedly into a piece of hare and swore mildly when he burned his tongue.
Hare is another delicious meat – it’s more ‘steaky’, darker and richer than rabbit.
In Milan, jugged hare is flavoured with grated chocolate, which adds colour and depth to the sauce.
gloss: The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To move swiftly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But Wales somehow snaffled possession for fly-half Jones to send half-back partner Mike Phillips haring away with Stoddart in support.
Desperate, Kim hurls his phone overarm at the creature's forehead. It's a solid chunk of metal and it's a dead hit. Grey reels backwards and cracks his skull against the wall. By the time he recovers, Kim is out of sight, haring away down the left corridor, just echoing, fading footsteps on concrete.
Translations:
lynx
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lynx, linx, lenx, lynce, from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), from Proto-Hellenic *lúnks, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”), because of the cat's glowing eyes and ability to see in the dark. Doublet of onza and ounce.
Displaced English los; Middle English lusk (“lynx”), from Old English lox (“lynx”) as the animal died out in Britain during the Middle Ages.
Inflected forms:
form: lynx
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lynxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several medium-sized wild cats of the genus Lynx.
pos: noun
Translations:
marmot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French marmotte, from Old French marmotte; further etymology uncertain, possibly from a Gallo-Romance base *marm- (“to mumble; to murmur”) (referring to the sound made by the marmot when eating; possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *mur- (whence murmur) and ultimately imitative; compare also French marmot and marmonner) + Middle French -otte (diminutive suffix). Akin to French marmotte, Italian marmotta, Engadin Romansh murmont, Old High German *murmento (dialectal German Murmentel, standard Murmeltier); see also Latin mūs montānus (literally “mountain rat”).
Inflected forms:
form: marmots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
pos: noun
Translations:
marten
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English martren, martryn, from Old French martrine (“marten fur”), from Old Dutch *marthrīn (“of marten fur”), from *marthar (“marten”). Displaced related Old English mearþ, from Proto-Germanic *marþuz.
Inflected forms:
form: martens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Martes.
pos: noun
Translations:
badger
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge + -ard. Displaced earlier brock, from Old English brocc.
Base: badge
Affixes: -ard
Inflected forms:
form: badgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: badgers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: badgering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: badgered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: badgered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any mammal belonging to the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora or Taxidea.
pos: noun
gloss: A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
pos: noun
gloss: A brush made of badger hair.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
obsolete
gloss: A person who is very fond of cricket.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He kept badgering her about her bad habits.
"Yeah? Cool. Just a warning: people are going to badger you about that. It's practically inevitable for gay trans people."
Related words: cete
meline
sett
set
Translations:
ermine
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English ermine, ermin, ermyn, from Old French ermin, ermine, hermine.
There are two main theories for the origin of Old French ermine. Germanic origin is suggested via Old Dutch *harmino (“stoat skin”), from *harmo (“stoat, weasel”) (compare Dutch hermelijn and dialectal herm), from Proto-Germanic *harmǭ, *harmô (compare Old English hearma, Old High German harmo (harmin (adjective), obsolete German Harm), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱormō (compare Romansh carmun, obsolete Lithuanian šarmuõ). Romance sources identify the animal with the corresponding word for Armenian, possibly from Medieval Latin mūs Armenius (“Armenian mouse”) or a posterior compound.
Inflected forms:
form: ermines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ermine
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ermines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ermining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ermined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ermined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A weasel found in northern latitudes (Mustela erminea in Eurasia, Alaska, and the Arctic, Mustela haidarum in Haida Gwaii, Mustela richardsonii in the rest of North America); its dark brown fur turns white in winter, apart from the black tip of the tail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The office of a judge.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: The fur of this animal, used as a heraldic tincture: a white field with a repeating pattern of stylized black spots.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various moths, especially in the family Yponomeutidae
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In blazon, of the colour ermine (white with black spots).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To clothe with ermine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: stoat
short-tailed weasel
Related words: erminee
Derived words: bird-cherry ermine
counter-ermine
counterermine
erminelike
ermine moth
erminette
raise to the ermine
Translations:
stoat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English stote (“the ermine, especially in its brown summer coat”), of uncertain origin. The word bears some resemblance to Old Norse stutr (“bull”), Swedish stut (“bull, steer”) and Danish stud (“steer”) (see also English stot), but the semantic link is difficult unless a common origin is from “(brown?) male mammal”. First attested in the mid 1400s.
Inflected forms:
form: stoats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stoats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stoating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stoated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stoated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stote
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip.
pos: noun
examples: I have never seen Stoats hunt in packs, but it is certain both Weasels and Stoats do so.
In 1953 it was reported that the stoat had increased to a high population level, but that the weasel introduced at the same time had disappeared (de Vos et al. 1956).
European stoats were long ago introduced to New Zealand (along with ferrets and weasels!) in the mistaken belief that they would control the burgeoning populations of introduced rabbits.
gloss: To stitch (edges of relatively thick cloth, fur, etc, for example on either side of a join or tear) together in a way that is invisible from the 'front', by sewing part of the way into and then back out of the thickness of the material from the 'back' side (without the thread going all the way through to the 'front' side of the material).
pos: verb
examples: to stoat two very ravelled edges
The tear to be stoated must have firm edges; it is impossible to stoat ravelled edges such as most serges have. The cloths which give the best results are vicunas, boxcloths, closely woven tweeds, meltons, and overcoatings.
[…] ; in fact, before sewing in the sleeve, it would not be a bad plan to crease over, making line X the crease, and line O the fall; for stiff, hard materials, it would be better to stoat a piece like fig. 12 to line X.
Translations:
polecat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
media
television
Etymology: From Middle English polcat, pulkat, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle English *pole, *poule (“hen”), from Old French poule (“hen”) + Middle English cat. Compare English foulmart.
Inflected forms:
form: polecats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several long-bodied mammals of the subfamilies Mustelinae and Ictonychinae, both in the weasel family Mustelidae.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several long-bodied mammals of the subfamilies Mustelinae and Ictonychinae, both in the weasel family Mustelidae.
pos: noun
examples: For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
By the little garden pergola open to the winds some fluttered peacocks were blotted nervelessly amid the dripping trees, their heads sunk back beneath their wings: while in the pergola itself, like a fallen storm-cloud, lolled a negress, her levelled, polecat eyes semi-veiled by the nebulous alchemy of the rainbow.
gloss: A skunk.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
Texas
gloss: A tubular device used to support lights on a set.
pos: noun
examples: This is adjustable telescopic tubing, wedged securely between floor and ceiling (vertical pole) or wall-to-wall (horizontal pole), within corridors, arches, window openings, doorways, etc. It may be held in position by a strong internal spring or end-screws. Designs include polecat, varipole, barricuda, jack tube, Acrow.
This uses a battery-operated HMI/MSR 200 W rigged on a magic arm fastened to a vertical 'pole-cat'. Check that the car roof is suitable for this application and remember to include a clean card (beer mat) between the top of the pole-cat and the car roof!
Derived words: black polecat
European polecat
forest polecat
marbled polecat
steppe polecat
stink like a polecat
striped polecat
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: اِبْن عُرْس مُنْتِن
roman: ibn ʕurs muntin
lang: Arabic
word: فَأْر الْخَيْل
roman: faʔr al-ḵayl
lang: Bashkir
word: көҙән
roman: köźən
lang: Czech
word: tchoř
lang: Finnish
word: kärppä
lang: French
word: putois
lang: Georgian
word: ქრცვინი
roman: krcvini
lang: German
word: Iltis
lang: Hebrew
word: סַמּוּר
roman: samúr
lang: Japanese
word: ケナガイタチ
lang: Japanese Sign Language
word: ケナガイタチ
lang: Polish
word: tchórz
lang: Romanian
word: dihor
lang: Russian
word: хорёк
roman: khoryok
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: feocallan
lang: Spanish
word: turón
lang: Ukrainian
word: тхір
roman: txir
lang: Welsh
word: ffwlbart
ferret
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English furet, ferret, from Old French furet, from Vulgar Latin *furittum (“weasel, ferret”), diminutive of Latin fūr (“thief”).
Inflected forms:
form: ferrets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ferrets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ferreting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ferreted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ferreted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the European polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
pos: noun
gloss: A black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes).
pos: noun
gloss: A diligent searcher.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The most challenging documentary discoveries were made by a tenacious archival ferret, Dr Antonio Bertoletti. In 1879 he published his findings in a slim, refreshingly dry volume, Francesco Cenci e la sua Famiglia.
gloss: To hunt game with ferrets.
pos: verb
gloss: To uncover and bring to light by searching; usually to ferret out.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
broadly
examples: Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him.
I confess that we were so unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only got away from England at the risk of being ducked to death, and that Cly was so ferreted up and down, that he never would have got away at all but for that sham.
He had been piqued by the failure of all his endeavors to ferret out the assassins.
She ferreted in her bag; then held it up mouth downwards; then fumbled in her lap, all so vigorously that Charles Steele in the Panama hat suspended his paint-brush.
Related words: furtive
Derived words: chutney ferret
exercise the ferret
ferret-badger
ferreter
ferret-faced
ferret-legging
ferretlike
ferrety
hob-ferret
reverse ferret
ferret about
ferret around
ferret out
Translations:
muskrat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps so called for its musky odour and because it resembles a rat, or perhaps called by an Algonquian name like the Abenaki moskwas, with the spelling altered under the influence of the English words musk and rat.
Inflected forms:
form: muskrats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: musk-rat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A semiaquatic rodent of the tribe Ondatrini.
pos: noun
examples: 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 187.
He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels.
Later, dozing in the lamplight, he saw muskrats everywhere. Their small supple forms slipped busily along the floor at dusk, continually perfecting their burrows. He saw them pulling soft weeds and holding juicy roots in their tiny paws to eat.
gloss: Any of several shrews in the family Soricidae, especially an Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus).
pos: noun
gloss: A bandicoot rat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: Louisiana muskrat
muskrat root
muskratty
muskrat weed
Translations:
mouflon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French mouflon, from Italian muflone. From 1765–1775.
Inflected forms:
form: mouflons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moufflon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mufflon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: muflon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica.
pos: noun
examples: One of the most modified domesticates is the sheep, the various breeds of which bear little resemblance to its wild ancestor, the mouflon.
Translations: