yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
durian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malay durian, ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”). Doublet of iwi, from Māori.
Inflected forms:
form: durians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: durion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: darion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: dorian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: durean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: duryoen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of several trees, genus Durio, of Southeast Asia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The spiky edible fruit of this tree, known for its strong taste and very strong, unpleasant odor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1692, Robert Boyle, General Heads for the Natural History of a Country Great or Small, London: John Taylor and S. Hedford, “Enquiries for Suratte, &c.,” p. 96,
Whether the Betele hath such a contrariety to the Durion, that a few Leaves of that, put to a whole Shopful of Durions, will make them all rot suddenly; and whether those that have surfeited on Durions, and thereby over-heated themselves, do, by laying a Leaf or two of Betele upon their Breasts or Stomachs, immediately cure the Inflammations, and Recover.
The Mangosteen, Lansat, Rambutan, Jack, Jambou, and Blimbing, are all abundant; but most abundant and most esteemed is the Durian, a fruit about which very little is known in England, but which both by natives and Europeans in the Malay Archipelago is reckoned superior to all others.
The dessert I thoroughly enjoyed, for the various fruits of Singapore are delicious. One of them, the "durion," exhales a most noxious perfume, but is pleasant to the palate.
Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.
gloss: A deep, rich yellow colour, like that of durian flesh (also called durian yellow).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
rambutan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay rambutan, English usage first attested 1707.
Inflected forms:
form: rambutans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ramboostan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rambotan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rambootan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: rambostan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ramboteen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ramboutan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: rambustan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: rambustine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: rampostan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A tree of species Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.
pos: noun
gloss: The edible fruit of this tree.
pos: noun
examples: The Mangosteen, Lansat, Rambutan, Jack, Jambou, and Blimbing, are all abundant; but most abundant and most esteemed is the Durian, a fruit about which very little is known in England, but which both by natives and Europeans in the Malay Archipelago is reckoned superior to all others.
Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.
Translations:
sarong
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Malay sarungbor.
English sarong
Borrowed from Malay sarung.
Inflected forms:
form: sarongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in South and Southeast Asia, also in the Pacific islands.
pos: noun
examples: A few mats, baskets, and cooking vessels, with plates and basins purchased from the Macassar traders, constitute their whole furniture; spears and bows are their weapons; a sarong or mat forms the clothing of the women, a waist-cloth of the men.
[David] Beckham donning a sarong was taken as incontrovertible proof that Posh had somehow managed to steal him from the world of men, by witchcraft. It is absolutely impossible to overestimate how upset people were by sarong-gate, particularly the tabloid media. The Sun ran the pic with the headline: “Beckham has got his Posh frock on.”
Translations:
orangutan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably via Dutch orang-oetan, orang-oetang, apparently from Malay orang hutan, orang utan (literally “forest man”), from orang (“person, man”) + hutan (“forest”), although as a term for the animal it is attested only recently (earlier and preferred terms being mawas and mayas). As there is originally no evidence for its usage, except occasionally literally, it must be assumed to have been regional, or a descriptive collocation used to explain the animal to early travellers. Forms in -ng are alterations after the first element, orang.
The name orangutan has been used in Old Javanese texts, notably in Rāmāyaṇa and Smaradahana, in the form of uraṅutan and wuraṅutan. Its usage to refer to the apes in these texts (from as early as the 9th century CE) has been seen as a refutation of claims that the name orangutan originates from a European source.
Inflected forms:
form: orangutans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: orang-utan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orang-outang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ourang-outang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orangoutang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orang utan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orangutang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ourang outang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orang-outan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ourangoutang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orang-utang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ourang-outan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: oran-outang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orang-otang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orangoutan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orangotang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orang-otan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: uran-utan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: oran-otan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orang-hutan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An arboreal ape, characterised by its shaggy reddish-brown coat and long arms, of the genus Pongo, native to Borneo and Sumatra.
pos: noun
Translations:
paddy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay padi (“paddy plant”). Doublet of palay.
Inflected forms:
form: paddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Taking out a handful of paddy the old woman exclaimed, “Look how good this paddy is! It is called Malbhog – it makes excellent puffed rice.”
gloss: A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: paddy bird
paddy hat
paddyland
paddymelon
rice paddy herb
Translations:
aero
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
Etymology: Back-formation from aero- (prefix), from Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros).
Inflected forms:
form: more aero
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aero
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: aeros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to aviation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We've seen a lot of growth in the aero sector.
According to aero experts these planes will be capable of carrying six passengers, five machine guns, a special rapid fire aerogun and about fifty bombs, and will be practically immune from injury due to attacks by the light battleplanes […]
gloss: Aerodynamic; having an aerodynamic appearance.
pos: adj
examples: It's a very aero design, with smooth lines.
gloss: Aerodynamics.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: "The biggest difference is aero, which is a really big cut."
gloss: An airplane or airship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
informal
gloss: Aerospace.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: aero bar
aero club
aero engine
frutiger aero
Translations:
wrinkled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more wrinkled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wrinkled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Uneven, with many furrows and prominent points, often in reference to the skin or hide of animals.
pos: adj
examples: As the ocean receded from the beach it left the sand appearing wrinkled.
Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.
Antonyms: nonwrinkled
unwrinkled
wrinkle-free
wrinkleless
Translations:
realism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís
Proto-Italic *reis
Latin rēs
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Late Latin -ālis
Late Latin reālisder.
Old French reelbor.
Middle English real
English real
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 realism
From real + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: realisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An artistic representation of reality as it is.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A doctrine that universals are real: they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: nominalism
antirealism
Related words: idealism
universalism
Derived words: antirealism
capitalist realism
depressive realism
dirty realism
Eurorealism
hallucinatory realism
hyperrealism
hysterical realism
infrarealism
Islamorealism
kitchen sink realism
logical realism
macrorealism
magical realism
magic realism
mathematical realism
metarealism
moral realism
naïve realism
new realism
nonrealism
overrealism
photorealism
photo-realism
pseudorealism
quasi-realism
race realism
semirealism
socialist realism
social realism
speculative realism
superrealism
tactical realism
technorealism
transcendental realism
ultrarealism
unrealism
Translations:
surrealism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-
Old French sur-
French sur-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís
Proto-Italic *reis
Latin rēs
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Late Latin -ālis
Late Latin reālisder.
Old French reel
Middle French real
French réel
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 -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.
Latin -ismusbor.
French -isme
French réalisme
French surréalismebor.
English surrealism
Borrowed from French surréalisme. By surface analysis, sur- + realism or surreal + -ism.
Base: surreal
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: surrealisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Art with a surreal aesthetic or narrative, regardless of whether or not it is linked to the surrealist movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
Related words: surreal
surrealist
Derived words: neosurrealism
Translations:
monotone
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
media
printing
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From the post-Classical Latin monotonus (“unvarying in tone”) or its etymon the Ancient Greek μονότονος (monótonos, “steady”, “unwavering”); compare cognate adjectives, namely the French monotone, the German monoton, the Italian monotono, and the Spanish monótono, as well as the slightly earlier English noun monotony and adjective monotonical.
Inflected forms:
form: more monotone
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most monotone
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: monotones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: monotones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: monotoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: monotoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: monotoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having a single unvaried pitch.
pos: adj
examples: The prominence of the syllables is more monotone than in English, the intonation of the latter having a larger variation of stressed and unstressed syllables.
In the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more monotone, business-like quality.
gloss: Of a function: that is always nonincreasing or nondecreasing on an interval.
pos: adj
examples: The function f(x)#58;#61;x³ is monotone on #92;R, while g(x)#58;#61;x² is not.
gloss: Synonym of monochrome.
pos: adj
gloss: A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When Tima felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in monotone and act as though she were a robot.
It is no very difficult matter to be loud in a high tone of voice; but to be loud and forcible in a low tone, requires great practice and management; this, however, may be facilitated by pronouncing forcibly at firſt in a low monotone; a monotone, though in a low key, and without force, is much more ſonorous and audible than when the voice ſlides up and down at almoſt every word, as it muſt do to be various.
There is a water-break formed by a small terrace of rock in mid-stream, and purling with a hollow, delicious monotone—an island of pebbles is above, with here and there smaller ones near the "forks."
gloss: A piece of writing in one strain throughout.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To speak in a monotone.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Derived words: antimonotone
monotone function
monotoneity
monotonize
nonmonotone
positone
pseudomonotone
monotone convergence theorem
monotonic
monotonous
monotony
Translations:
hooch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation of hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit Xutsnoowú Ḵwáan, the group that produced it, from Hutsnuwu (“grizzly bear fort”), the name of the village on Admiralty Island in which they lived. From Tlingit xóots (“grizzly bear”).
Inflected forms:
form: hooches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hootch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: he was so grief-stricken that he literally drowned his sorrow in “hootch-i-noo,” the native equivalent of whiskey. […] Had he not been so sad he would not have drunk the “hootch,” and if he had not drunk the hootch he would not have died: a perfectly reasonable and logical argument.
Bring on the free hooch!
Translations:
ides
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ides, idus, from Anglo-Norman and Old French ides, from Latin īdūs, a fourth-declension plurale tantum, from the Latin practice of treating most recurring calendrical days as plurals. The Latin term is cognate with Oscan eiduis, both perhaps deriving from an unknown Etruscan term. Middle English and Old French also used the singular form ide.
Inflected forms:
form: ides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Id.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Ides
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The notional full-moon day of a Roman month, occurring on the 15th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 13th day of all other months.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
historical
often
examples: Þa monðas þe habbað iiii nonas æfter kalendas... habbað to idus xiii dagas and to ii kalendas eahtatyne.
Those months that have 4 nones after the kalends... have 13 days to the ides and eighteen to the second kalends.
The Roman Month its several days divides
By reckoning backwards, Calends, Nones, and Ides.
For the modern reader of Latin the most irritating pecularity of this system of dating is that the days after the Ides of any month carry the name of the following month... Another trap for the unwary lies in the fact that the Roman calendars given in most reference books are Julian, not pre-Julian. When Caesar added ten days to the Roman year he put them near the ends of the seven 29-day months, one or two in each. As a result, instead of the day after the Ides of all months being a.d. XVII Kal., in these seven months it is either a.d. XVIII Kal. or a.d. XIX Kal., and all the following days change correspondingly.
[March, May, Quintilis, and October] also have their Nones on the seventh, as Numa ordained, because Julius changed nothing about them. As for January, Sextilis, and December, they still have their Nones on the fifth, though they began to have thirty-one days after Caesar added two days to each, and it is nineteen days from their Ides to the following Kalends, because in adding the two days Caesar did not want to insert them before either the Nones or the Ides, lest an unprecedented postponement mar religious observance associated with the Nones or Ides themselves, which have a fixed date.
The third day before the ides of March is March 13th; the third ides of August is August 11th; and the third of the ides of November is November 11th.
Translations:
sentinel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer
computing
engineering
epidemiology
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
Etymology: First attested in the 1570s from Middle French sentinelle (“watch or guard kept by a soldier”), from Old Italian sentinella, probably from sentina + -ella, from sentire (“perceive, watch, hear”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive by the senses”). See also sense, sentient.
Base: sentina
Affixes: -ella
Inflected forms:
form: sentinels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: centinel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sentinels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sentineling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: sentinelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: sentineled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: sentineled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: sentinelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: sentinelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: centinel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A sentry, watch, or guard.
pos: noun
examples: They promised faithfully to bear their confinement with patience, and were very thankful that they had such good usage as to have provisions and light left them; for Friday gave them candles (such as we made ourselves) for their comfort; and they did not know but that he stood sentinel over them at the entrance.
the sentinels who paced the ramparts
that princes do keep due sentinel
gloss: A private soldier.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: “I will not permit the poorest centinel to be treated with injustice.”
gloss: A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.
pos: noun
examples: The <xmp> tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally
[…] a sentinel value that indicates a missing entry.
gloss: A sentinel crab.
pos: noun
gloss: A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: sentinel animals can be used to explore endemic diseases.
gloss: To watch over as a guard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He sentineled the north wall.
gloss: To post a guard for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He sentineled the north wall with just one man.
The old-fashioned stoop, with its suggestive benches on either side, lay solitary and silent in the moonlight; the garden path, weedily overgrown since father's death, and sentineled here and there with ragged hollyhock, lay quiet and dew-laden […]
Derived words: biosentinel
nonsentinel
Senfic
Senner
sentinel event
sentinelship
sentinelwise
stand sentinel
Translations:
howitzer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
rugby
skating
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch houwitser, from German Haubitze, from Middle High German haufniz, from Czech houfnice, which was derived from houf (“flock, crowd”) + -nice. The Czech noun houf comes from Middle High German hufe (“heap”), from Old High German hūfo.
Base: houf
Affixes: -nice
Inflected forms:
form: howitzers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: howitzers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: howitzering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: howitzered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: howitzered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cannon that combines certain characteristics of field guns and mortars, delivering projectiles with medium velocities, usually with relatively high trajectories; normally a cannon with a tube length of 20 to 30 calibers.
pos: noun
gloss: A powerfully hit shot.
pos: noun
examples: Belgium took a little while to catch Scotland with the first of the howitzer blows, but when the first one landed there was a certainty of more. Many more.
gloss: To attack with a howitzer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: Casaba howitzer
gun-howitzer
howitzerlike
mountain howitzer
Translations:
semtex
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Genericized trademark Semtex, derived from the Czech name of the suburb of Pardubice where it was manufactured, Semtín, and ex(plosive).
Inflected forms:
form: semtexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: semtexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: semtexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: semtexed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A highly malleable general-purpose plastic explosive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To use semtex to destroy (something).
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
Translations:
goulash
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bridge
games
Etymology: From French goulasch, itself from Hungarian gulyás (“herdsman”), an ellipsis of gulyáshús (“herdsman meat”), gulyásétel (“herdsman food”), and/or gulyástokány (“herdsman stew”). First attested in English 1866.
Inflected forms:
form: goulashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gulyas
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gulasch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: goulasch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gulash
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of American chop suey.
pos: noun
tags: Midwestern-US
countable
uncountable
gloss: A style of play in which the cards are not thoroughly shuffled between consecutive deals, so as to make the suits less evenly distributed between the players.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A hodgepodge, mishmash
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: While people do not flaunt their preferences, there is also no attempt to hide the facts. One man, who had worked with the collective for three months, could not divide the group by sexuality. "It seems like a goulash of gays, straights, bi's but you can't tell who's who, or what's what."
Derived words: American goulash
goulash communism
Translations:
shako
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French shako, from Hungarian csákó (“cylindrical military dress hat worn by the Hungarian hussars from the 18th century to World War I”).
Inflected forms:
form: shakos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shakoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume.
pos: noun
gloss: A bearskin or busby.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
bangle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बंग्ली (baṅglī, “glass bracelet”).
Base: bang
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: bangles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bangles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bangling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bangled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bangled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.
pos: noun
examples: Mrs. MacAndrew smoothed down the lap of her gown, and gold bangles fell over her wrists.
gloss: to beat about or beat down, as corn by the wind.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: to waste away little by little; squander carelessly; fritter (away).
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
obsolete
examples: Thus betwixt hope and fear, suspicions, angers […] betwixt falling in, falling out, etc., we bangle away our best days, befool out our times […].
If we bangle away the legacy of peace left us by Christ, it is a sign of our want of regard for him. — Duty of Man.
gloss: (falconry) to beat about in the air; flutter: said of a hawk which does not rise steadily and then swoop down upon its prey.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: to flap or hang down loosely, as a hat brim or an animal's ear.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: bangle ear
Translations:
bungalow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati બંગલો (baṅglo, “Bengali-style house; a detached house situated between a garden or a field”). Compare Hindi बंगला (baṅglā, “Bengali”), Bengali বাংলা (baṅla, “Bengal”). Doublet of bangalo.
Inflected forms:
form: bungalows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A single-storey house, typically with rooms all on one level, or sometimes also with upper rooms set into the roof space.
pos: noun
examples: My aunt can't manage the stairs any more, so she's moving to a bungalow.
the proprietor of the little tin bungalow that did duty for a garage
Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.
gloss: A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda; a similar house in this style.
pos: noun
examples: Following the rule adopted in most tropical countries, a bungalow style of house was chosen.
gloss: A chalet or lodge.
pos: noun
tags: Atlantic-Canada
gloss: A detached, freestanding house or mansion.
pos: noun
tags: Malaysia
Singapore
Derived words: bungaloft
bungaloid
Bungalow Belt
bungalowed
California bungalow
dak bungalow
dawk bungalow
good class bungalow
Translations:
Blighty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Corruption of the Hindustani विलायती (vilāytī) / وِلایَتی (vilāyatī, “foreign”), which is related to Arabic ولاية (wilāyah, “state, province”), whence also, through Turkish, vilayet.
Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell explained in their Anglo-Indian dictionary, Hobson-Jobson, published in 1886, that the word was used in the names of several kinds of exotic foreign things, especially those that the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato, विलायती बैंगन (vilāytī baiṅgan, literally “foreign aubergine”), and especially to soda water, which was commonly called विलायती पानी (vilāytī pānī, literally “foreign water”).
Blighty was the inevitable British soldier’s corruption of it. But it only came into common use as a term for Britain at the beginning of the First World War in France about 1915. It turns up in popular songs "There’s a ship that’s bound for Blighty", "We wish we were in Blighty", and "Take me back to dear old Blighty, put me on the train for London town", and in Wilfred Owen's poems, as well as many other places.
The sense of a minor wound comes from attributive use of the noun, as in “a Blighty wound,” “a Blighty one,” 1916.
In modern Australian usage, Old – a sentimental reference to Britain, as in Old Country and Old Dart – was added to give Old Blighty.
Inflected forms:
form: Blighties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Blighty one.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The ones who did get a good Blighty were returned to England.
Well maybe I'll have luck this time in the shape of a decent little “Blighty” as its^([sic]) the only way out of it for a while.
"Talk about Blighties——” He lifted his bandaged arm.
Translations:
cushy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani خوشی (xośī) / ख़ुशी (xuśī), from Classical Persian خوشی (xuši, “happiness”).
Inflected forms:
form: cushier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more cushy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: cushiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most cushy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Making few demands; comfortable, easy.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: This is a really cushy job. Mostly I just sit around drinking tea.
But if it really is such a cushy number, why doesn’t Britain have enough drivers – and what does it take to join their ranks?
gloss: Comfortable, often in a way that will suit a person's body; ergonomic.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: cushy sedans for executive types.
Derived words: cushily
cushiness
cushy number
Translations:
dinghy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Bengali ডিঙি (ḍiṅi), perhaps from Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “wooden trough”).
Inflected forms:
form: dinghies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dinghies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dinghying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dinghied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dinghied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.
pos: noun
examples: The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
gloss: A sailing dinghy.
pos: noun
gloss: An inflatable rubber life raft.
pos: noun
gloss: To travel by dinghy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: tender
Derived words: sailing dinghy
dinghy towing
Translations:
dungaree
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi डूंगरी (ḍūṅgrī, “coarse calico”), from the name of a village.
Inflected forms:
form: dungarees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dungari
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: dungeree
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Heavy denim fabric, often blue; blue jean material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This fellow was in the native costume, which is literally worse than nothing, consisting only of a straw tube, about a foot long, with a shred of blue dungaree hanging from its upper end.
1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The "Gloria Scott"
He wore an open jacket, with a splotch of tar on the sleeve, a red-and-black check shirt, dungaree trousers, and heavy boots badly worn.
Delaney lifted her head, glaring at her only purebred dog—a black Dachshund with bladder control issues—who was tugging at his festively decorated dungaree wraparound diaper, trying to yank it off.
gloss: Trousers or pants or overalls made from such fabric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural
plural-only
uncountable
Derived words: dungareed
dungarees
Translations:
mugger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mug + -er.
Base: mug
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: muggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who assaults and robs others, especially in a public place.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.
pos: noun
Derived words: charity mugger
chugger
mike mugger
Translations:
shawl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi शाल (śāl) and Urdu شال (śāl), from Persian شال (šâl).
Inflected forms:
form: shawls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shawls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shawling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shawled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shawled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.
pos: noun
examples: She wears her shawl when it's cold outside.
Just then Norbourne entered the chamber; and, fancying from her attitude that his wife was asleep, he approached softly, and drew a large shawl around her.
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
"In the coach in which I rode, there was a vacant seat till our arrival in Birmingham. Leaving Birmingham I found it filled with a fat Englishman, in drab breeches and gaiter boots, the finest specimen of a thorough John Bull that I had seen—weight about sixteen stone. He wore two top coats, a broad brimmed hat, and an enormous red travelling shawl, behind the folds of which his portly double chin was entirely hidden.
Jessamy turned. Her uplifted candle showed a dark handsome young women in a black dress. She wore a wide shawl over her head which hung down on either side, only partially hiding a starched, white apron..
gloss: A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.
pos: noun
gloss: To wrap in a shawl.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Rebecca was shawling her in an upper apartment , where these two friends had an opportunity for a little of that secret talking and conspiring which forms the delight of female life
Derived words: beshawled
enshawled
India shawl
prayer shawl
praying shawl
shawl collar
shawlette
shawl goat
shawlless
shawllike
shawl material
shawl pattern
shawl strap
shawl waistcoat
shawlwise
unshawl
Translations:
lawful
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English laweful, equivalent to law + -ful, conflated with Middle English leful, leeful, leveful (“according to law, lawful, pertaining to law”). See also leveful.
Base: law
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more lawful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lawful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lawfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lawfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lawfull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society.
pos: adj
examples: Lawful money is always a land asset and can only be issued by an actual land jurisdiction government — not a corporation.
The laws are controversial. Forcing someone to work during a lawful strike is a major step. It was always likely to inflame a situation, and so it proved with LNER. ASLEF's counter-tactic came as a five-day walkout, which would have been the longest stoppage for many years had LNER not withdrawn its plan.
[Pete] Hegseth demanded full and unrestricted access to all Anthropic’s AI models for every lawful purpose.
gloss: Operating according to some law or fundamental principle.
pos: adj
examples: Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are lawful to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides?
[…] so that the person's actions are merely the inevitable product of lawful causes stemming from prior events […]
gloss: Of a character: having an alignment which makes them tend to follow the laws and conventions of society.
pos: adj
gloss: A character having a lawful alignment.
pos: noun
Synonyms: de jure
lawful
legal
legitimate
licit
rightful
Antonyms: forbidden
unlawful
Related words: equitable
fair
just
righteous
upright
Derived words: awful but lawful
lawful but awful
lawful day
lawful evil
lawful good
lawful interception
lawfully
lawful money
lawfulness
lawful neutral
unlawfulness
Translations:
slalom
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Norwegian sla (“steep, hill side”) and låm (“trail”).
Inflected forms:
form: slaloms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slaloming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slalomed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slalomed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To race in a slalom.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To move in a slalom-like manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Snow fell, swirled, slalomed past our windows.
Hiro climbs on his bike, eases it through the neighbourhood and onto the street, and then gosses it up to a few hundred miles an hour, slaloming between the stanchions of the monorail, practicing.
Gerrard plainly had other ideas as he set off on that final, driving run into the opposition penalty area, slaloming between Kamil Glik and Grzegorz Wojtkowiak and getting his shot away as a third defender, Artur Jedzejczyk, and the goalkeeper, Wojciech Szczesny, tried to close him out.
Translations:
halfling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: From half + -ling. Sense 3 ("half-grown young person") is attested to 1794. It was then used by J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings (1954) as an alternative reference to members of his hobbit race. Hobbits were used in the original 1974 releases of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, but in later editions they were changed to "halflings" for legal reasons, as being a pre-existing word rather than one invented by Tolkien.
Base: half
Affixes: -ling
Inflected forms:
form: halflings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fictional small humanoid creature featuring in fantasy fiction; a hobbit.
pos: noun
gloss: A fictional humanoid born of a human parent and a parent of another race in fantasy fiction.
pos: noun
gloss: A half-grown person, between a child and an adult.
pos: noun
examples: Often it had been my fate to accompany the pick of the knight errantry of Whinnyliggate on such quests—for, though Nance was about my own age, she had become a reigning belle while I was but a halfling boy.
Translations:
veranda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An Indian English word of Indo-Portuguese origin, from Portuguese varanda (“balustrade; balcony”). Further etymology is unclear and disputed.
Inflected forms:
form: verandas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: verandah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: viranda
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: virandah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: virando
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.
pos: noun
examples: Boulte ate his breakfast, advised her to see her Arab pony fed in the veranda, and went out.
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.
Translations:
maraca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Brazilian Portuguese maraca, derived from Old Tupi maraká or Paraguayan Guarani mbaraka (“rattle”).
Inflected forms:
form: maracas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument.
pos: noun
examples: Helly, please approach the MDE cart. You may choose one genre and one accessory… the maraca. Excellent choice.
gloss: Breasts.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
Derived words: maracaist
Translations:
sablefish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sable
Proto-Indo-European *péysks
Proto-Germanic *fiskaz
Proto-West Germanic *fisk
Old English fisċ
Middle English fisch
English fish
English sablefish
From sable + fish.
Inflected forms:
form: sablefishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sablefish
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dark-coloured marine fish of species Anoplopoma fimbria, of North American Pacific waters.
pos: noun
examples: Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.
Translations:
albacore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese albacor, from Arabic اَلْبَكُورَة (al-bakūra, “the young camels”).
Inflected forms:
form: albacores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A longfin tuna, a large marine fish (Thunnus alalunga) of warm seas, having edible flesh.
pos: noun
examples: But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.
Translations:
carnauba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese carnaúba, from Old Tupi karana'yba.
Inflected forms:
form: carnaubas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Brazilian palm tree having waxy, fan-shaped leaves and toothed leafstalks, Copernicia prunifera.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The hard wax obtained from the leaves of this plant and used especially in polishes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
caldera
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish caldera (“cauldron”), from Late Latin caldāria (“warm bath”), from Latin caldārium. Doublet of chowder.
Inflected forms:
form: calderas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large crater formed by collapse of the cone or edifice of a volcano.
pos: noun
examples: The lakes of both Rotorua and Taupo occupy calderas left from enormous prehistoric eruptions, and magma lies at shallow depths beneath a number of centres.
Translations:
cow-tree
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From their milky sap.
Inflected forms:
form: cow-trees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cow tree
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various South American trees which, when wounded, exude a rich milky liquid.
pos: noun
gloss: Brosimum utile, native to Brazil and Venezuela
pos: noun
gloss: Couma macrocarpa of the family Apocynaceae, a tropical rain forest tree native to Colombia.
pos: noun
gloss: Gymnema lactiferum, native to Ceylon.
pos: noun
gloss: Manilkara bidentata, native to Brazil
pos: noun
Translations:
grouper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese garoupa (“grouper”). Compare garrupa.
Inflected forms:
form: groupers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grouper
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: groper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: grooper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.
pos: noun
Translations:
macaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese macau, of unknown origin. English sources point to Nheengatu makawana, which is only attested from the 20th century onwards.
Inflected forms:
form: macaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maccaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: macao
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca, Primolius and Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage.
pos: noun
Translations:
board-foot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: board-feet
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of cubic measure for timber, equal to one foot square by one inch thick.
pos: noun
Translations:
cubit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English cubite, from Latin cubitum (“elbow, cubit”). Doublet of cubitus, covado, and codo.
Inflected forms:
form: cubits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.
pos: noun
examples: Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
gloss: Any of various units of length approximating this distance, usually around 35–60 cm.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Synonym of ulna, the bone of the human forearm.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Related words: cubitus
qubit
Derived words: cubital
cubitocarpal
cubitoradial
Translations:
condor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Spanish cóndor, from Classical Quechua kuntur. The change /t/ to /d/ was characteristic of the "coastal" variety of the language.
Inflected forms:
form: condors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: condor
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California.
pos: noun
examples: The condor lays a couple of eggs and the ostrich a score, and yet in the same country the condor may be the more numerous of the two: the Fulmar petrel lays but one egg, yet it is believed to be the most numerous bird in the world.
gloss: A gold coin of some South American countries bearing the figure of one of these vultures.
pos: noun
gloss: An Argentinian short range ballistic missile.
pos: noun
gloss: The completion of a hole four strokes under par (a quadruple birdie, triple eagle, or double albatross).
pos: noun
gloss: A combination of four options of the same type at four strike prices, giving limited profit and limited risk.
pos: noun
Derived words: Andean condor
California condor
Condor Legion
Condor moment
iron condor
Translations:
gaucho
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish gaucho, of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: gauchos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gauchoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cowboy of the South American pampas.
pos: noun
examples: Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.
gloss: A proposed currency intended to be used by Argentina and Brazil to make interregional payments.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: huaso
charro
cowboy
llanero
vaquero
Derived words: gauchos
gauchesque
Translations: