yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
insectoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
ufology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English insect
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English insectoid
From insect + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: insectoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Insect-like.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Living beyond the Omega-4 mass relay in the Terminus Systems, the mysterious Collector species is glimpsed so rarely as to be taken for a myth by most in galactic society. In reality, Collectors are human-sized insectoid bipeds and can resemble massive winged beetles. They are a terrifying force in the galaxy, responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands.
gloss: An insect-like creature.
pos: noun
examples: Two hundred Earth years earlier, a race of Insectoids discovered them as the Squishys were sending their first probes to other planets in their own star system.
Translations:
jeopardy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English jupartie, jeupartie (“even chance”), from Anglo-Norman giu parti and Middle French jeu parti (“a divided game, i.e. an even game, an even chance”), from Medieval Latin iocus partītus (“an even chance, an alternative”), from Latin iocus (“jest, play, game”) + partītus, perfect passive participle of partiō (“divide”); see joke and party.
Inflected forms:
form: jeopardies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Danger of failure, harm, or loss.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The poor condition of the vehicle put its occupants in constant jeopardy.
Thus chaunce hath (by exchaunge) the flie ſo trapt, / That ſodainly he loſt his libertee: / The more he wrange, the faſter was he wrapt [in the spider's web] / And all to thencreaſe of his ieoberdee, […]
It seemed to me I could do something in that vein with my characters: the ticking clock, dire jeopardy, quick changes of fortune, small acts having huge consequences.
When Obinna was red carded shortly after for a ridiculous kick on Larsson it seemed as though West Ham's hopes of reaching Wembley, and in turn Grant's of keeping his job, lay in serious jeopardy.
Translations:
propagandist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From propaganda + -ist, after French propagandiste.
Base: propaganda
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: propagandists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more propagandist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most propagandist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who disseminates propaganda.
pos: noun
examples: Every country has been officially invited by the Belgian Government to send delegates to the International Congress of Agricultural Associations, which will take pace at Brussels in September, 1910. In most countries propagandist committees have been formed in connection with this Congress.
"Astroturfers and propagandists tend to attack and controversialize the news organizations, personalities and people surrounding an issue rather than sticking to the facts."
It's Alexander the Great who everyone remembers and much of that is down to his and his propagandists' genius.
gloss: Consisting of or spreading propaganda.
pos: adj
examples: Of course many of these accounts were propagandist in intention and designed for an unsophisticated audience.
In another comment from the audience, one woman raised what is perhaps the anti-pornography movement's strongest point. "There's a strain of pornography which is incredibly propagandist against women," she said.
Translations:
exam
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: sciences
Inflected forms:
form: exams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: examing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: examming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: examed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: examed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: exammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: exammed
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
Senses:
gloss: Shortened form of examine
pos: verb
examples: Thin sections were stained with lead citrate and then examed using 1200EX electron microscope (JEOL, Tokyo, Japan).
Translations:
evidential
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin ēvidentiālis, from Latin ēvidentia + -ālis.
Inflected forms:
form: more evidential
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most evidential
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: evidentials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or providing evidence.
pos: adj
gloss: A syntactic element (affix, clitic, or particle) that indicates evidentiality.
pos: noun
Translations:
mariner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mariner, maryner, from Anglo-Norman mariner, marinier, from Old French marinier, maronnier, from marin and Medieval Latin marinellus and marinarius (“sailor”), from marīnus (“marine”), from mare (“sea”) + -īnus (“-ine: forming adjectives”). Eclipsed Middle English marinel, marynell (“mariner, sailor”) from Old French marinel from the same sources. Equivalent to marine + -er.
Base: marine
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: mariners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of sailor, particularly one on a maritime vessel.
pos: noun
examples: My mariners, / Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me—
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
Translations:
debility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English debylite, from Old French debilité (French débilité), from Latin dēbilitās (“weakness”), from dēbilis (“weak”), from dē- + habilis (“able”).
Inflected forms:
form: debilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of physical or mental weakness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] and is the onlie laſt remedie for all debilities which haue long vexed the body through a hote diſtemper of the Lever, ſuch as a hote Gutte; it allayeth all Inflamations inward & outward.
As I was in a state of extreme debility, I resolved to sail directly towards the town, as a place where I could most easily procure nourishment.
[…]
I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debility might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.
I was struck besides with the shocking expression of his face, with his remarkable combination of great muscular activity and great apparent debility of constitution
At the mention of money Mrs Dibble was overcome with great debility, and wheezed, "I don't feel up to talking about money, matters just now, dearie. I think I better have a bit of a doze."
Translations:
jackpot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
forestry
Etymology: Attested as jack-pot (“big prize”), 1944; from sense "slot machine" (1932), from obsolete poker sense (1881) "antes that begin when no player has a pair of jacks or better"; from jack (“playing card”) + pot.
Inflected forms:
form: jackpots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jackpots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jackpotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jackpotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jackpotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
pos: noun
examples: If no player picks all six numbers correctly, the jackpot is rolled over and added to the next week's jackpot; several weeks of rollovers can build up jackpots up to $350 million or more.
gloss: A large cash prize or money.
pos: noun
gloss: An unexpected windfall or reward.
pos: noun
gloss: A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
pos: noun
examples: a juniper jackpot
gloss: A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes.
pos: noun
gloss: Of a slot machine, to issue a jackpot.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I went into the Las Vegas Casino and played $20 in a nickel slot, and it jackpotted for $300.
She sought out the machines along the aisles, the ones most frequently used, stuffed with tokens, especially likely to jackpot.
gloss: To fraudulently exploit an automatic teller machine so that it dispenses cash that has not been withdrawn from an account.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
uncommon
Related words: acepot
Derived words: bingpot
hit the jackpot
placepot
quadpot
jackpotting
Translations:
pita
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Greek πίτα (píta, “pie”), more at pizza. Doublet of pide and pizza.
Inflected forms:
form: pitas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pitta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pita bread
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pitta bread
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A piece of pita bread; a flatbread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is a wide variety of pites, small triangles of butter laden crispy filo dough, voluptuously filled with cheeses, vegetables or spiced meats.
A sweet smell of cheese and milk pites permeates the air of the homes of Greek housewives who prepare the pites according to the tradition of their forefathers.
Most often pites are made with filo dough, but certainly not always. They can be filled with anything and everything, and they are.
They served pita, my old nemesis. I ordered one, and it arrived oozing with hummus and studded with bright green falafel. It was horribly delicious.
Translations:
you-uns
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Eye dialect of you ones.
Inflected forms:
form: you'uns
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: you'ns
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: youuns
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: youns
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: youins
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: you'ins
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: y'ins
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: y'uns
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: yunz
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: yuns
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: yinz
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: you'nes
pos: pron
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: You (plural, as subject or object).
pos: pron
tags: Appalachia
Midwestern-US
US
examples: Guthrie turned upon him a face aglow with gratification. ‘That's what makes me like you-uns, stranger,’ he said, cordially.
Translations:
basto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish bastobor.
English basto
Borrowed from Spanish basto.
Inflected forms:
form: bastos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A card of the suit clubs in Spanish-suited playing cards
pos: noun
examples: Spadillio first, unconquerable Lord ! / Let off two captive trumps, and swept the board. / As many more Manillio forc'd to yield, / And march'd a victor from the verdant field. / Him Basto follow'd, but his fate more hard / Gain'd but one trump and one Plebeian card[…]
Translations:
impudent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English impudent, originally meaning immodest, shameless, from Latin impudēns (“shameless”), ultimately from in- + pudere (“to feel shame”).
Base: pudere
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more impudent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: impudenter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
proscribed
form: most impudent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: impudentest
pos: adj
tags: proscribed
superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent.
pos: adj
examples: The impudent children would not stop talking in class.
Sir Iohn, ſir Iohn, I am well acquainted with your maner of wrenching the true cauſe,the falſe way. It is not a confident brow, nor the throng of wordes, that come with ſuch (more then impudent) ſawcines from you, can thruſt me from a leuell conſideration, […]
“Wickam,” retorted Mrs. Pipchin, coloring, “is a wicked, impudent, bold-faced hussy.”
And another asked me if I had come to get a Canadian sweetheart; and a third, one of the impudentest, most conceitedest fellows I ever did set eyes upon, nudged me, so that I spilled my coffee all over my second-best damask-silk apron—the one with bugle fringe, you know, Miss Capel—and says he, 'Is it a case of Barkis is willin'?'
gloss: Lacking modesty or shame; indelicate.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Dian. Good my Lord,
Aske him vpon his oath, if hee do’s thinke
He had not my virginity.
Kin. What ſaift thou to her?
Ber. She’s impudent my Lord,
And was a common gameſter to the Campe.
Dia. He do’s me wrong my Lord: If I were ſo,
He might haue bought me at a common price.
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said vnto him, I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes. Therefore came I forth to meete thee, diligently to seeke thy face, and I haue found thee.
Wine and women will make men of vnderstanding to fall away, and he that cleaueth to harlots will become impudent.
Related words: impudence
impudency
impudicity
pudency
pudendal
pudendous
pudendum
pudent
pudibund
pudibundery
pudibundity
pudic
pudical
pudicity
Derived words: impudently
impudentness
Translations:
borg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of cyborg, a contraction of cybernetic organism.
Inflected forms:
form: borgs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of cyborg.
pos: noun
examples: You'll also have to put together a team or Force of borgs that you won from winning battles. Before battle you assemble your Force within the GF Energy Limit. Each borg has a cost attached to them and this GF Energy Limit is kind of like your budget.
Translations:
stereopticon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ster-der.
Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós)
Ancient Greek στερεο- (stereo-)der.
English stereo-
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ókʷs
Proto-Hellenic *ókʷs
Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek ὄψις (ópsis)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek ὀπτικός (optikós)
English stereopticon
From stereo- (“three-dimensional”) + Ancient Greek ὀπτικός (optikós, “visual”).
Inflected forms:
form: stereopticons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A magic lantern, especially one with two projectors arranged so as to produce dissolving views or combinations of images.
pos: noun
examples: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
Certain unscrupulous individuals grow rich through the manufacture and distribution of suggestive postcards, obscene steriopticon views, and inexcusable books and typewritten pamphlets.
Translations:
virulent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *wisós
From Middle English virulent (“leaking or seeping pus, purulent; (of putrefaction) extremely severe (sense uncertain)”) [and other forms], borrowed from Latin vīrulentus (“poisonous”), from vīrus (“poison; venom; slime, slimy liquid; stinking smell; nasty taste”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“poison; slime; fluidity”)) + -ulentus (suffix meaning ‘abounding in, full of’, forming adjectives).
Sense 4 (“of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis”) is derived from French virulent, which was first used in this sense by the French biologist François Jacob (1920–2013) and his co-authors in a 1953 article.
Inflected forms:
form: more virulent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most virulent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous.
pos: adj
gloss: Extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The politicians were virulent in their hatred of the president.
More venemous and much more virulent / Then any poyſoned tode, or any ſerpent.
It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
They were targeted by a virulent strain of nativism toward those from Southern and Eastern Europe that was largely about race.
gloss: Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis.
pos: adj
Related words: virulence
virulency
virus
pathogenic
Derived words: avirulent
cardiovirulent
enterovirulent
hepatovirulent
hypervirulent
hypovirulent
neurovirulent
nonvirulent
supervirulent
urovirulent
virulently
virulentness
Translations:
dismantle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French desmanteler, itself from des- (“dis-”), mantel (“coat”) + -er (verbal suffix).
Compare typologically uncloak, reveal, unmask.
Inflected forms:
form: dismantles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dismantling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dismantled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dismantled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax.
This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics.
gloss: To disprove a discourse, claim or argument.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If we can dismantle hate rhetoric and explain why it is, in fact, illogical, is the language no longer dangerous?
gloss: To divest, strip of dress or covering.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This is most ſtrange, that ſhe, who even but now
 Was your beſt object, the argument of your praiſe,
 Balme of your age, moſt beſt, moſt deereſt,
 Should in this trice of time commit a thing
 So monſtrous, to diſmantell ſo many foulds of fauour, […]
gloss: To remove fittings or furnishings from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: dismantlability
dismantlable
dismantleable
dismantlement
dismantler
undismantled
use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house
Translations:
longer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English long
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English longer
From long (“yearn”) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: longers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who longs or yearns for something.
pos: noun
examples: The slayer also lay,
The terrible earth-drake deprived of life,
Oppressed by bale: the ring-hoard longer
The twisted worm, might not control.
Translations:
cribbage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From crib + -age. Named from the "crib" consisting of certain cards laid aside by each player.
Base: crib
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: cribbages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His solicitude for Sir Horace, his brother-in-law, was extreme, and he passed hours in the sick youth’s chamber, playing at cribbage, or dominos, or indulging the young baronet’s remarkable turn for cutting out trees, animals, or birds with tiny scissors on delicate paper.
How much more real this dream was than that they should go back to the house where the sleeping children lay and where Stanley and Beryl played cribbage.
"No one remembers cribbage now," […]
gloss: A variety of pocket billiards that, like the card game, awards points for pairs that total 15. A player who pockets a ball of a particular number must then immediately pocket the companion ball that brings the number to 15.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: crib
Derived words: cribbage board
cribbage-faced
crib board
Translations:
pinochle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: Perhaps from Austro-Bavarian pronunciation of German Binokel (where b>p change is common) , French binocle (literally “pince-nez”), a related card game.
Inflected forms:
form: pinochles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pinocle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A card game, similar to bezique.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He remembered all—every pinochle game, every woman, every sad night.
gloss: A meld of the jack of diamonds and queen of spades in that card game.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: pinochle rummy
Translations:
motti
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Finnish motti.
Inflected forms:
form: mottis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: encirclement; pocket, siege, entrapment
pos: noun
Translations:
boycott
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Charles Boycott
English boycott
From Charles Boycott, an English evicting land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. For the surname see Boycott.
Inflected forms:
form: boycotts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boycotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boycotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boycotted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: boycotts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: There is probably not a citizen in the United States who wears a hat that has not heard of John Stetson, and does not know that the Stetson hat is one of if not the best made. For some cause the Knights [of Labor] have boycotted the Stetson hats, and have notified all dealers that if they sell them they also will be boycotted.
Unbowed after two years in jail, nine of the defendants boycotted the trial, refusing even to talk to their lawyers.
But even if you weren't boycotting the film on the basis of its disgraceful necrobestiality theme, boycotting it on the basis of its vampires is reason enough.
Omar has challenged Elliott Abrams’s record in Latin America, taken a firm line against Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, and advocated for—wait for it—the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine (even though the headlines have focused on her expressing support for the right to boycott as a tactic).
Consumers are using boycotts as a tool to call corporations out for their support of Israel’s war on Gaza. Some companies have seen their sales decline as consumers continue to boycott them for their association with Israel.
gloss: The act of boycotting.
pos: noun
examples: [W]hat has been the actual effects of the [UFW grape] boycott? As far as one can judge, it has cut down on the grape sales in a few big city outlets. But going into its second year, the boycott is losing steam. The middle class doesn't care.
UFW and Chile solidarity boycotts of grapes had very little contact with one another, despite the extensive connections between California and Chilean fruit industries.
Labor movements are a primary arena in which the boycott has been used, most notably in the grape boycott from 1965 to 1978. The boycott has a long tradition in the United States that can be traced back to the Boston Tea Party, a boycott of English tea by settlers in the North American colonies. It is noteworthy that consumer boycotts can be used not only in the progressive spirit of social justice but also in the service of economic nationalism; for example, the various "Buy American" campaigns[.]
Synonyms: embargo
Antonyms: buycott
endorse
favour
procott
Derived words: sex boycott
Translations:
brogue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish bróg (“boot, shoe”), from Old Irish bróc (“shoe, greave, legging, hose, breeches”), likely from Old Norse brók (“breeches”), from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“breeches”). The "accent" sense may instead be derived from Irish barróg (“a hold (on the tongue)”).
Inflected forms:
form: brogues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brogues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: broguing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brogueing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brogued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brogued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A strong dialectal accent, usually Irish or Scottish.
pos: noun
examples: I had no doubt he knew where I was from, for I had the brogue, although not much of it.
“No-man's-land.” The words were spoken in a deep voice filled with salt water and brogue.
Belter is composed mainly of Chinese, Japanese, Slavic, Germanic, and romance languages because Earth's most common tongues would be the ones to survive to form the new brogue of the cosmos.
his brooding good looks and distinct Scottish brogue won him legions of fans worldwide.
gloss: A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
pos: noun
examples: He had one pair of brogues and the soles were in a miserable state.
gloss: A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: To speak with a brogue (accent).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To walk.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To kick.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: brogued
brogueing
broguery
broguey
broguish
Translations:
drumlin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Irish droim (“back, ridge”) + English diminutive suffix -lin (“variant of -ling”).
Inflected forms:
form: drumlins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift.
pos: noun
Translations:
smashing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From smash + -ing. As a synonym for wonderful, the term first appeared in the United States in the early twentieth century, and possibly derives from the sense of smash used in smash hit and similar terms. Popular folk etymology connects the term to the broadly homophonous Irish is maith sin or Scottish Gaelic 's math sin ("that is good"), but this has been described as "improbable", and does not appear in the etymological dictionaries.
Base: smash
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more smashing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most smashing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: smashings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Serving to smash (something).
pos: adj
examples: The boxer delivered a smashing blow to his opponent's head.
gloss: Wonderful, very good or impressive.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: We had a smashing time at the zoo.
Um, the reason for this call is because I haven’t told you for seven hours that I love you, which is a scandal! And even if we weren’t getting married tomorrow, I’d ask you to marry me anyway. Yes I would, because you are smashing!
gloss: The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
pos: noun
examples: Some Greek dance is traditionally accompanied by the smashing of crockery.
Incoherency had overtaken his speech, but he was unaware of it. Nor did he connect the smashing of a bottle with the generous curve of his transit.
As soon as this danger was appreciated there followed a nervous smashing and chopping of triffids everywhere, until it occurred to someone that all that was necessary to make them harmless was the removal of the actual stinging weapon.
gloss: The destruction or disintegration of something by being smashed.
pos: noun
gloss: The hitting of something extremely hard.
pos: noun
gloss: The complete and sudden ruin or ruination of something.
pos: noun
gloss: An overwhelming victory or success.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
informal
gloss: The deformation of something through continuous pressure.
pos: noun
gloss: An act of sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: A disastrous failure of something.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
Derived words: smashingly
bone smashing
stack smashing
Translations:
tilly
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Irish tuilleadh (“more”).
Inflected forms:
form: tillies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more tilly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tilly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
examples: Myles: "Indeed your Honour may safely say so : Iwas ploughing away […] when I bethought how I forgot to tell little Jem, when he'd be buying my pen'orth of snuff, to be sure to get it in two separate ha'porths, the way he'd have the two tillies. So what could Ido but run home, to […] go myself for the snuff, and be sure to get my tillies.
He watched her pour into the measure and thence into the jug rich white milk, not hers. […] She poured again a measureful and a tilly.
A bakereen's dusind with tithe tillies to boot.
At each door he poured from the can into a pint measure and into the house-wife's jug, always with a tilly for the cat, whether there was a cat or not, sometimes splashing the step with milk to the annoyance of the housewife.
gloss: Containing till (unsorted glacial sediment).
pos: adj
Translations:
swelter
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English swelteren, frequentative form of Middle English swelten (“to die; faint”), from Old English sweltan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną (“to die”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to smolder; burn”), equivalent to swelt + -er (frequentative suffix).
Base: swelt
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: swelters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sweltering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sweltered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sweltered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sulter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: swelters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sulter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To suffer terribly from intense heat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To perspire greatly from heat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was so rare a piece of fun
To see the swelter'd cattle run
gloss: Intense heat.
pos: noun
examples: The summer swelter did not relent until late in September, most years.
Derived words: sweltersome
unsweltered
Translations:
bindi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hindi बिंदी (bindī)bor.
English bindi
Borrowed from Hindi बिंदी (bindī).
Inflected forms:
form: bindis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bindhi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The “holy dot” traditionally worn on the forehead of Hindu women.
pos: noun
examples: Actually… a six-figure advance? What the hell, dudes, I'm donning a sari and bindi and penning a novel called, let's see, how about Manchesterstani? My old desi m8s the rude girls of Moss Side have never before been captured in fiction. Int dat da truth, rude girls?
gloss: Makeup or jewellery worn in imitation of such a dot.
pos: noun
Translations:
birdo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English bridd
Middle English brid
English bird
English -o
English birdo
From bird + -o.
Inflected forms:
form: birdos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A birder or birdwatcher.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
examples: I encountered a few of these "birdos", as we call them in Australia, when I visited Oak Hammock Marsh[.]
Translations:
veld
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans veld, or from its etymon Dutch veld (“field; open country”) (formerly spelled veldt), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field, plain”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Doublet of field.
Inflected forms:
form: velds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: veldt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: The open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: In the Bokke-velds, as they are called, theſe animals [springbok] are found in great numbers, and ſometimes at Roode-Zand.
Advance tovvards the Cond Bokke Veld, or cold country of Antelopes: mountains covered with ſnovv.
People who have not been brought into contact with snakes may deny that they possess the power of fascinating a human being, but in the wild veldt strong, able-bodied men have been subjected to their spell, and can tell a different tale.
The pastoral lands or "velds," which extend chiefly around the outer slopes and in the east, are distinguished according to the nature of the grass or sedge which they produce as "sweet" or "sour."
Around, as far as the eye can see, there stretches the bare and dreary-looking plain. The Veld, as this plain is called, has a reddish soil, dry, barren, and dusty, with here and there at considerable intervals a straggling bush or a clump of thorn-shrubs.
I have a piece of veld on Doornfontein. It is a reserved veld. A small river runs here. It is the best grazing on my farm, being very sweet. I reserve it for my cattle.
Viewed from a practical point of view there seems no reason to think that these animals will fail to withstand the conditions of the Natal veld.
[W]e found vast numbers of Boer women and children would be left unprotected on the veldt.
And Thane nodded and staggered blindly upward, only to sag again in a heap upon the veldt.
Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky.
From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village.
South of the Zambesi, the frontier-line separates the high veldt and the low veldt regions, the line itself sometimes running along the crest and sometimes through the middle of the broken escarpment where the high granite tablelands break down towards the sea.
For [Rachel] Holmes, [Sarah] Baartman’s journey as an object of European curiosity and African exploitation began on the veld of South Africa’s Eastern Cape.
In the flatness of the veldts, one would want to communicate with someone else in order to provide theme and variation to the unbounded and unfettered thoughts stretching outward, inspired by the immense sameness of this place.
Translations:
bona
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Sabir bona (“good”), from Italian buono (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos (“good”), from Proto-Italic *dwenos (“good”). Doublet of bonus.
Inflected forms:
form: more bona
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bona
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bonar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more bona
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bona
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: bonar
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Good.
pos: adj
tags: Polari
examples: SANDY: Oh, get him! The vanity of the man. Well, p'raps not Nelson then. How about reproductions of great masterpieces?
JULIAN: A bona idea. Now, let me see...
Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.
Bona to vada you.
gloss: Well.
pos: adv
tags: Polari
examples: Order lau your luppers on the strillers bona.
Antonyms: cod
bad
Translations:
boto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese boto (“boto”), of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: botos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inia geoffrensis, a species of freshwater dolphin endemic to the Amazon river system
pos: noun
examples: But in a group where one boto puts on a display, there was much more tail-whacking, biting and other aggressive behavior among the males.
Translations:
session
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).
Inflected forms:
form: sessions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sessioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sessioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sessioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
pos: verb
examples: “I downloaded a clip from a drummer, who I now realize is Bernard Purdie, who has sessioned on all kinds of records,” he said.
Translations:
outer
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
commerce
engineering
firearms
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
retail
sports
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Middle English outre, outer, outter, uttre, from Old English ūtre, ūtera, ūterra (“outer”), equivalent to out + -er. Compare German äußere (“outer”), Danish ydre (“outer”), Swedish yttre (“outer”), Icelandic ytri (“outer”). Piecewise doublet of utter.
Base: out
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: outermore
pos: adj
tags: comparative
rare
form: outermost
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: outmost
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: outers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Outside; external.
pos: adj
gloss: Farther from the centre of the inside.
pos: adj
examples: Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
gloss: An outer part.
pos: noun
examples: 'Phil Cornish' [a snowdrop variety] is like a cross between a pixie hat and a pagoda, with elegant upswept outers [outer petals] marked in a green colour-wash at the top and warpaint slashes at the lower end.
gloss: An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
pos: noun
gloss: The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
pos: noun
gloss: A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
pos: noun
gloss: The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.
pos: noun
examples: We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.
Antonyms: inner
Derived words: outerchange
outercoat
outercourse
outering
outer limit
outerly
Outer Manchuria
outer mantle
Outer Mongolia
outerness
outer phalangeal cell
outerplanar
outer semidirect product
outerside
outer space
outer totalistic
outerwear
outerweb
Translations:
setting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: settings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of setting (various senses).
pos: noun
examples: the setting of the sun
the setting, or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris
gloss: A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
pos: noun
gloss: A level or placement to which a knob or control is set.
pos: noun
examples: the volume setting on a television
gloss: The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
pos: noun
gloss: Hunting with a setter.
pos: noun
gloss: Something set in, or inserted.
pos: noun
examples: Thou shalt set in it settings of stones.
gloss: A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
pos: noun
examples: Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem
Bach's setting of the Magnificat
gloss: The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
pos: noun
gloss: The direction of a current of wind.
pos: noun
gloss: That disappears below the horizon.
pos: adj
examples: the setting sun
As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.
Translations:
catchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin captus
Proto-Indo-European *-yetider.
Vulgar Latin -io
Vulgar Latin *captiāre
Old French chacierbor.
Anglo-Norman cachierbor.
Middle English cacchen
English catch
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English catchy
From catch + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: catchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: catchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Instantly appealing and memorable.
pos: adj
examples: Eric wrote a catchy tune to play on his acoustic guitar while Alyssa plays the drums.
This hook is so catchy that I can't stop listening to it!
Because in today's 2,000mph technological freefall, he who coins the catchiest buzzword generally wins the debate by default.
The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”
gloss: Tending to catch or ensnare; entangling.
pos: adj
tags: dated
figuratively
examples: a catchy question
gloss: Consisting of, or occurring in, disconnected parts or snatches; changeable.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: a catchy wind
Encyc. of Sport
It [the fox's scent] is […] flighty or catchy, if variable.
gloss: Contagious; catching.
pos: adj
examples: The catchy cold which has been transmitted to you directly or indirectly might have been avoided had you been in better physical condition.
Derived words: catchily
catchiness
uncatchy
Translations:
youthful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From youth + -ful.
Base: youth
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more youthful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most youthful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Young or seeming young.
pos: adj
examples: a youthful butler
Southgate is presiding over a talented, youthful squad and there is enough attacking weaponry to test the best in the Euros
gloss: Characteristic of young people.
pos: adj
examples: youthful vivacity
Derived words: unyouthful
youthful indiscretion
youthfulize
youthfully
youthfulness
youthful offender
youthful river
Translations:
yessir
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From yes + sir.
Compound parts: yes
sir
Inflected forms:
form: yessuh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: yessiree
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: yessirree
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to express assent, especially to a male superior.
pos: intj
tags: informal
gloss: Used to express emphatic affirmation.
pos: intj
tags: informal
gloss: Term of address to a male; mate; buddy.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
township
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English towneship, townschip, tounshipe, tunscipe, from Old English tūnsċipe (“the inhabitants of a town; township”), equivalent to town + -ship.
Base: town
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: townships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The territory of a town.
pos: noun
examples: The train is usually crowded and half the township of Forres seems to turn out to watch it go off.
Furthermore, everyone knows that the crops grown at Chou-Shui River are of high quality, like the rice of Siluo Township, watermelons of Erlun Township, garlic of Cihtong Township, flowers of Shijo Township, guava of Shetou Township, and so on.
Tondop said the township of Mendi is slowly getting back to normal.
gloss: A subdivision of a county.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: An area set aside for nonwhite occupation.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: In addition, the council has completed the planning of a new Coloured township on the site of the existing African township.
gloss: A nonwhite (usually subeconomic) area attached to a city.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: Growing up in the township of Zwide, just outside Port Elizabeth, bed for Kolisi was a pile of cushions on the living-room floor and finding enough to eat was a daily struggle. […] So, the man from the townships can certainly empathize with the pain lockdown is inflicting on the less fortunate in his country.
gloss: A small town.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
Related words: squatter camp
Derived words: Bristol Township
Eastern Townships
Laugharne Township
paper township
township music
townshipwide
Translations:
anti
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Conversion of the prefix anti- to an adjective.
Inflected forms:
form: more anti
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Opposed to something.
pos: adj
gloss: That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°
pos: adj
tags: physical
gloss: A person opposed to a concept or principle.
pos: noun
examples: On one occasion, franchise supporters accused antis of dumping lemons, wet sponges, rolls of ticker tape, bags of water, and garbage pails on innocent suffrage supporters parading outside the anti-suffrage offices.
Antis jumped on this announcement, calling it vote buying and indicative of the hypocrisy of prohibitionists who talked incessantly in the first election about the immorality of the antis' vote-buying efforts.
gloss: A fan who objects to a particular creator, franchise, fandom, character, ship, etc., especially on moral or sociopolitical grounds.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
often
slang
examples: While I did not directly analyze how the antis define feminism, it appears that they believe Sarah J Maas as an author is a white feminist and therefore unable to write anything feminist.
Other fans or viewers are thus not coded as fans but instead positioned as either homophobic, angry "antis" (even if they ship Johnlock or other queer ships) or as the outsider "casuals" who aren't dedicated or smart or invested enough to properly interpret Sherlock.
The VLD fandom especially has cultivated a definition of antis as ones against a moral or societal ill (e.g., pedophilia, incest).
Antonyms: pro
Translations: