yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
zonk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested around 1950. Unknown origin, likely imitative, of echoic origin.
Inflected forms:
form: zonks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zoink
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zonks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: zonking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: zonked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: zonked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: zoink
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An unfavorable card or token, or undesirable or worthless item used as a prize in a contest or game show (such as Let's Make a Deal).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: There will always be two doors that hold zonks, so regardless of whether you initially chose the grand prize or a zonk, Monty will always be able to show you a zonk not chosen.
A live, mane-embellished, SAG-card-carrying lion, I should point out, who was likely being staged for a few minutes off to the side before he would be used as a freaking “Zonk!” on a freaking game show, for crying out loud.
A zonk was way overdue, yet the boys knew that the Seniors knew they would think this was a zonk and would trick the boys by making this another real prize.
I have three empty coffee cans, two with prizes and one with a slip of paper that says "Zonk."
Avoid the Zonk / On the TV show Let's Make a Deal, contestants often had to choose between three curtains.
Once a contestant picked a door, Monty would often open one of the other two doors to reveal a zonk, […]
Behind two doors is a “zonk,” that is, something amusing but of little or no value, such as a goat, […]
gloss: The feeling of a drug taking hold.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A cigarette hand-rolled from tobacco and cannabis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To hit hard .
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To make (someone) sleepy or delirious, to put into a stupor .
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To become exhausted, sleepy or delirious.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
usually
examples: After two hours of studying, I zonked out.
Derived words: zonk out
zonked
Translations:
lang: German
word: schläfrig machen
lang: German
word: müde machen
zonked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English zonk
English -ed
English zonked
From zonk + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more zonked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most zonked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely fatigued.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: After eighteen hours of proofreading, I was completely zonked.
zoegirl:yeah, but don’t say anything to my mom about it. (not that u would.) hey, i’ve gotta go to bed. i’m zonked.
“(yawns) I'm so zonked. The red alerts from that wormhole kept me up half the night.” “Oh, I know. It's, like, are we crossing the event horizon or not? Like, I don't care actually. I just want you to pick one.”
“Anyone up for a game of parcheesi?” “Maybe a movie. I'm zonked.” “The Brothers McMullin?”
gloss: Deeply asleep.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I must have been really zonked. They said it took fifteen minutes to wake me up.
gloss: Drunk; intoxicated.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: The Pranksters had just held an Acid Test at the Fillmore Auditorium, a big ballroom in the middle of one of San Francisco's big Negro slums, the Fillmore district. It was a wild night. Hundreds of heads and bohos from all over the Bay area turned out, zonked to the eyeballs.
[…] swingers in the audience were getting zonked on beer and fresh sea breezes and sound […]
[…] playing eight-ball while zonked, chugging beer with locals […]
Related words: zonk
zonk out
Translations:
sodalite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Named for the alkaline silicate composition.
Base: soda
Affixes: -lite
Inflected forms:
form: sodalites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mineral of alkaline igneous and plutonic rocks that are low in silica, of the chemical composition of sodium aluminum silicate with chlorine, Na₄Al₃Si₃O₁₂Cl. Pink sodalite is sometimes called hackmanite. Sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite Group of silicate minerals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
theodolite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin theodolitus (1571), perhaps containing Ancient Greek θέᾱ (théā, “sight, view”) and Arabic العِضَادَة (al-ʕiḍāda, “astrolabe, alidade”); if so, doublet of alidade.
Inflected forms:
form: theodolites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A surveying instrument, consisting of a small mounted telescope, used to measure horizontal and vertical angles.
pos: noun
examples: I drew outlines (according to my usual custom) of all the hills on the horizon before us, and took angles on them with the theodolite.
The height of those mountains was from five to seven thousand feet above our level, by angular measurement with a theodolite.
It was a lieutenant and a couple of privates of the 8th Hussars, with a stand like a theodolite, which the artilleryman told me was a heliograph.
Germany, of all countries, was most vitally concerned in it; but even a cave-dweller in La Fayette Square, seeking only a measure of motion since the Crusades, saw before his eyes, in the spring of 1903, a survey of future order or anarchy that would exhaust the power of his telescopes and defy the accuracy of his theodolites.
The process of setting up a theodolite is carried out in three stages: centring the theodolite, levelling the theodolite and elimination of parallax.
Translations:
butch
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally, it was probably used as an abbreviation of butcher. Later, in the 1940s, the sense of “masculine lesbian” developed.
Inflected forms:
form: butcher
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more butch
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: butchest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most butch
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: butches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.
pos: adj
examples: There, look, Mr. Horne! Vada that great butch lucoddy!
Nor can I credit that a — to put it crudely — proud bisexual butch Italian — albeit one lonely, poor, emotional and without strong will — which Giovanni is shown to be in the earlier part of the book, should become, in a mere matter of months, and as the result of any happening, the venal hysterical fairy that he does.
[…] Closeted men adopted feminine affect while butch men embraced traditional masculinity.
[…] butch men who had sex with effeminate queens. […]
gloss: Of a woman (usually lesbian), having a masculine appearance, or attitude.
pos: adj
examples: Then I started going out with different kinds of women, and I started feeling more like I wanted to be more butch. […] I feel much more butch than I feel femme.
The process of appreciating a butch aesthetic may be even more complex for bisexual butch women. In contrast to lesbian butches who may date only within a butch-femme community, bisexual butch women may be more likely to […] In comparison to butch bisexual women, it may be easier for femme bisexual women to locate male and female dating partners […]
More of the rotten responses I receive about being a bisexual butch woman come from other bisexuals, particularly men, who don't want to deal with any woman who is not some Barbie doll standard of femininity.
"Faye got wicked buff and has a super butch haircut and it is hot as shit." "It's okay, babe. We can ogle her together."
gloss: A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: Coming out appeals to the narcissistic pleasure of presenting to another a finished image of ourselves, which they return to us in exactly the same form: [someone tells] you [they are] a bisexual butch, and you confirm it. But instead, it seems all too likely – especially, perhaps, for bisexuals, whose claims to identity always need that much more proof – that no such mirror-image will be returned.
Derived words: butchery
butchly
butchness
butchphobia
butch up
butchy
unbutch
Translations:
temporary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin temporarius, from tempus (“time”).
Inflected forms:
form: more temporary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most temporary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tempory
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: temporaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tempory
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
pos: adj
examples: Sally was put in temporary charge of the department while they searched for a full-time replacement.
gloss: Existing only for a short time or short times.
pos: adj
gloss: One serving for a limited time; a short-term employee, especially in an office.
pos: noun
gloss: A short-term variable used to store an intermediate result.
pos: noun
Related words: temporality
tempus fugit
Derived words: cotemporary
nontemporary
tempban
tempofrost
temporarily
temporariness
temporary gentleman
temporary help
temporary restraining order
temporary tooth
there is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
untemporary
Translations:
homeless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos
Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos
Proto-Germanic *haimaz
Proto-West Germanic *haim
Old English hām
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Old English hāmlēas
Middle English *homles
English homeless
From Middle English *homles, *hamles, from Old English hāmlēas (“homeless”), equivalent to home + -less. Cognate with Dutch heemloos, Danish hjemløs (“homeless”), Swedish hemlös (“homeless”). Compare also German heimatlos (“homeless”), Icelandic heimilislaus (“homeless”), West Frisian dakleas (“homeless”, literally “having no roof, roofless”).
Base: home
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lacking a permanent place of residence.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Whenever I pass the park, I see the homeless people sleeping on the benches.
Xinyang special region received 1,200-1,400 mm of rain between June and August 1956: 280,000 homes were destroyed and 3.2 million peasants (out of a total of almost 6 million) were left homeless. In the most affected county in the special region and the province, Huaibin, 60 percent of the total surface area was covered by floods and 230,000 out of 440,000 inhabitants left homeless; grain production fell by 66 percent in 1956 and the authorities had to send large amounts of relief.
You know what you never see? A really good-looking homeless couple.
The massive arches of the retaining walls have become tent city for the many homeless people in the area.
gloss: Containing no place that might be called home.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But I should turn mine ears and hear
The moanings of the homeless sea,
⁠The sound of streams that swift or slow
⁠Draw down Æonian hills, and sow
The dust of continents to be; […]
Related words: home
Derived words: antihomeless
homeless dumping
homelessly
homelessness
homeless shelter
nonhomeless
politically homeless
Translations:
webcast
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From web + -cast, from broadcast.
Base: web
Affixes: -cast
Inflected forms:
form: webcasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: webcasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: webcasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: webcast
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: webcast
pos: verb
tags: past
form: webcasted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
participle
past
proscribed
sometimes
form: webcasted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
past
proscribed
sometimes
Senses:
gloss: A video and/or audio broadcast transmitted via the Internet
pos: noun
gloss: To make such a broadcast
pos: verb
Translations:
imperium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin imperium (“power, command”), from imperō (“command, order”), from im- (form of in) + parō (“prepare, arrange; intend”). Doublet of empery and empire.
Inflected forms:
form: imperia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: imperiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Supreme power; dominion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The right to command the force of the state; sovereignty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: imperium in imperio
Derived words: coimperium
Western Imperium
Translations:
ootheca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English oo-
English theca
English ootheca
From oo- (“egg-”) + theca (“sheath”).
Inflected forms:
form: oothecae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oötheca
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An egg case of any of the orthopteroid insects (such as cockroaches and mantids).
pos: noun
examples: Since the founding of the colony it had been a tradition to unload oothecae – egg sacs – in the cabinets so the younglings would be near the principal food stocks.
gloss: The theca or sporangium of ferns.
pos: noun
Derived words: oothecal
Translations:
alms
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἔλεος (éleos)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek ἐλεέω (eleéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn)
Ancient Greek ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn)
Ancient Greek -συνος (-sunos)
Ancient Greek -σῠ́νη (-sŭ́nē)
Ancient Greek ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosúnē)bor.
Late Latin eleēmosyna
Vulgar Latin *alēmosynabor.
Proto-West Germanic *alemōsinā
Old English ælmesse
Middle English almesse
English alms
From Middle English almes, almesse, ælmesse, from Old English ælmesse, from Proto-West Germanic *alemōsinā, a borrowing from Vulgar Latin *alemosyna, from Late Latin eleēmosyna, from Ancient Greek ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosúnē, “alms”), from ἐλεέω (eleéō, “to have mercy”), from ἔλεος (éleos, “mercy”). Compare Saterland Frisian Aalmoose (“alms”), Dutch aalmoes (“alms”), German Almosen (“alms”), Catalan almoina (“alms”), Portuguese esmola (“alms”), Galician esmola (“alms”), Spanish limosna (“alms”), French aumône (“alms”).
Inflected forms:
form: alms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
pos: noun
examples: She gave $10 weekly to the poor as alms, in an era when $10 was serious money.
Alms are distributed from the weekly collection.
c. 1779, Alban Butler, Lives of the Saints
St. Antoninus never refused an alms which was asked in the name of God.
Translations:
dieselpunk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From diesel + -punk.
Base: diesel
Affixes: -punk
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A genre of science fiction and art that combines fictional retrofuturistic elements with the technology, culture, and aesthetics of the period of history beginning in the interbellum between World War I and World War II and ending around the 1950s (known as the "diesel era" within the dieselpunk community).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In other words, steampunk explores adjustment to an industrial culture from the opposite direction to cyberpunk -- but has very much the same agenda. Me, I'm trying to write dieselpunk ...
[…] post-apocalyptic dieselpunk action adventure […]
BioShock isn't steampunk, it's dieselpunk.
Translations:
coexist
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From co- + exist. Compare Latin coexsistō.
Base: exist
Affixes: co-
Inflected forms:
form: coexists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coexisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coexisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coexisted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: co-exist
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: coëxist
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To exist contemporaneously or in the same area.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
stative
usually
examples: peacefully coexist
learn to coexist
coexist with others
Different religions can coexist peacefully in one society.
Humans and wildlife must coexist in fragile ecosystems.
Translations:
combatant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from late Middle English combataunt, from Middle French combatant. By surface analysis, combat + -ant. Doublet of combattant.
Inflected forms:
form: combatants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person engaged in combat, often armed.
pos: noun
examples: Gladiators were combatants who fought to the death to entertain the public.
Come hither, you that would be combatants:
Henceforth I charge you, as you love our favour,
Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause.
On the passage, one day, for the diversion of those gentlemen, all the boys were called on the quarter deck, and were paired proportionably, and then made to fight; after which the gentlemen gave the combatants from five to nine shillings each.
If any combatant was struck down, and unable to recover his feet, his squire or page might enter the lists, and drag his master out of the press; but in that case the knight was adjudged vanquished […]
“[…] Don’t you realize that alcohol is an essential part of heroism? The combatant and the drunkard are brothers, you genius.”
The leading voices of the womanosphere are using a similar strategy. As Brittany Hugoboom put it in an op–ed for the rightwing outlet Quillette: “Conservatives will never win if they imagine themselves as combatants atop defensive battlements, hurling abuse on the mass media. We need to involve ourselves in the creation of pop culture.”
Translations:
aris
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from Aristotle, Cockney rhyming slang for bottle, itself shortened from bottle and glass, Cockney rhyming slang for arse.
Inflected forms:
form: arises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: arse
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
slang
Translations:
boracic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin borax (genitive boracis), itself via Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq), from Persian بوره (bura).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or impregnated with borax.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Synonym of boric.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
Derived words: boracic acid
boracic lint
boracite
Translations:
Bristol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Bristowe, from Old English Bryċġstōw (literally “the place by the bridge”), from bryċġ + -stōw, with additional final /l/ due to hypercorrection from l-vocalizing accents. See bridge and stow for more.
The tiddlywinks sense is associated with players from Bristol University.
Base: bryċġ
Affixes: -stōw
Inflected forms:
form: Bristols
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bristole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Brigstow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Bristou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Bristow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Brizzle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
informal
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Bristol board (“kind of heavy paper”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A shot that moves a whole pile of winks rather than just one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In the Cambridge-improved version of tiddlywinks, potting isn't everything. […] Most of the matches I watched during the tournament were defensive struggles like this one, games that came down to squops, gromps and Bristols.
Translations:
dumbfuck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dumb + fuck. Dysphemistically modelled after dumbass.
Compound parts: dumb
fuck
Inflected forms:
form: dumbfucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dumb fuck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An extraordinarily stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: You dumb fucks, you're nothin’ but lunch ducks / Big nuts here swinging like nunchucks
Translations:
fuckface
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-
Proto-Germanic *fukkōną
Old English *fuccian
Middle English *fukken
English fuck
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Late Latin faciō
Proto-Italic *-jēs
Late Latin -iēs
Late Latin faciēs
Late Latin facia
Old French facebor.
Middle English face
English face
English fuckface
From fuck + face.
Inflected forms:
form: fuckfaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fuck-face
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ugly or otherwise undesirable or annoying person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
vulgar
examples: Laugh away fuckface, that picture is going to be on the cover of every major newspaper in two days time.
Translations:
fuckhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-
Proto-Germanic *fukkōną
Old English *fuccian
Middle English *fukken
English fuck
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
English fuckhead
From fuck + head. Dysphemistically modelled after dickhead.
Inflected forms:
form: fuckheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stupid or otherwise undesirable person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
vulgar
Translations:
lady-killer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lady-killers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ladykiller
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lady killer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A man unusually attractive to women.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Davey, smart in clean shirt, riding-breeches and leggings, was in his element, his quick eyes everywhere, fancying himself too as a lady-killer.
Spotlight on me, I still look twenty / Still get money, lady killer pushing a Bentley
gloss: An uncaring womanizer.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
womanizer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English wīfmann
Middle English womman
English woman
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English womanize
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 womanizer
From womanize + -er (agent noun).
Inflected forms:
form: womanizers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: womaniser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A man who habitually flirts with and seduces, or attempts to seduce, women.
pos: noun
examples: A couple of months ago, in a piece about the language of self-involvement, I quoted a girlfriend of Woody Allen as having described the actor as “very much of a womanizer, very self-involved”.
Sometimes the stereotype is framed as light and cheeky—think the “boys will be boys” mentality exemplified by sitcom womanizers such as How I Met Your Mothers Barney Stinson or '''Two and a Half Mens Charlie Harper.
Getting back into the dating game after a painful divorce is never easy, and the proliferation of womanizers looking to take advantage of your vulnerability only makes things worse.
Translations:
uptight
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: uptighter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more uptight
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: uptightest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most uptight
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uptights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: Don't be so uptight! You won't go to jail for crossing the street against the light.
gloss: Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense.
pos: adj
gloss: Sexually repressed.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: He came from a very uptight religious background, but you wouldn't know that now!
gloss: Unfriendly or rude.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: Withnail: Just because the best tailoring you’ve ever seen is above your fucking appendix doesn’t mean anything. / Danny: Don’t get uptight with me, man.
gloss: An uptight person.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
cobblers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from cobbler’s awls, for balls (testicles or nonsense)http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cob1.htm
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: testicles.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
slang
examples: Then she only goes and kicks me right in me cobblers, don’t she!
gloss: Nonsense.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
slang
examples: Stop talking cobblers. Load of old cobblers.
Translations:
gorgeous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gorgeouse, a borrowing from Middle French gorgias (“elegant, fashionable”), from Old French gourgias, gorgias (“gorgeous, gaudy, flaunting, gallant, fine”), of uncertain origin, but apparently connected with Old French gorgias (“a gorget, ruffle for the neck”), from Old French gorge (“bosom, throat”). See gorge. Semantic evolution probably akin to "swelling of the throat or bosom due to pride, bridling up" to "assume an air of importance, flaunting".
Inflected forms:
form: more gorgeous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gorgeous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sumptuously dressed.
pos: adj
tags: endearing
sometimes
examples: Two or three of them wore polished silk hats, elaborate shirt-fronts, diamond breastpins, kid gloves, and patent-leather boots...The others were more or less loosely clad...One of the gorgeous ones remarked...
gloss: Very beautiful.
pos: adj
tags: endearing
sometimes
examples: All the contest judges agreed that Brigitt was absolutely gorgeous.
The sunsets in Hawaii are gorgeous.
Carmiesha "Lil' Muddah" Vernoy had been with me since back in the day. She was more than a dime piece. She was drop-dead gorgeous and had the best pussy in the world.
gloss: Very enjoyable, pleasant, tasty, etc.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Hummus is absolutely gorgeous.
Related words: gorge
Derived words: beautimous
gorgeosity
gorgeously
gorgeousness
ungorgeous
Translations:
joanna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name Joanna, which is a rhyme for the dialectal pronunciation of piano as /piˈænə/.
Inflected forms:
form: joannas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piano.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
slang
examples: 2006, "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (song) by the Scissor Sisters
But I don't feel like dancin'
When the old Joanna plays
Translations:
syrup
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sirup, from Old French sirop, from Medieval Latin siruppus, syrupus, from Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “a drink, beverage, wine, coffee, syrup”), from شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”). Doublet of sirop. Related to sorbet, sherbet, sharbat.
Compare French sirop, Italian siroppo, sciroppo, Spanish jarabe, jarope, Portuguese xarope, and Dutch siroop and stroop. The first known use of the spelling sirup was in the 14th century.
Inflected forms:
form: syrups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sirop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sirup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: syrop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: syrups
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: syruping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: syruped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: syruped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: maple syrup
pancake syrup
peaches in syrup
With jellies soother than the creamy curd, / And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; [...]
gloss: Any viscous liquid.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: cough syrup
rose syrup
gloss: Anything overly sweet or sentimental.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Eventually, he or his staunch public tired of his easy-listening syrup, so Price recorded gospel for the Myrrh label before semi-retiring to his Golden Cross Ranch in Texas.
gloss: A wig.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: To convert or process into syrup.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To add syrup to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To sabotage (a vehicle) by pouring syrup into the gas tank.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: bar syrup
bucket of syrup
Canadian as maple syrup
cane syrup
coffee syrup
corn syrup
cough syrup
glucose-fructose syrup
glucose syrup
golden syrup
green syrup
high-fructose corn syrup
high fructose corn syrup
high-fructose maize syrup
maize syrup
maple syrup
maple syrup urine disease
palm syrup
pancake syrup
refiner's syrup
rose syrup
simple syrup
sizzurp
snail syrup
sorghum syrup
syruper
syruplike
syrup of figs
syrup of ipecac
syrupy
Translations:
maelstrom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The word was originally the name of a giant whirlpool off Norway in the Arctic Ocean which was said to destroy all ships that came close to it, likely the actual tidal pool system of Moskstraumen in Lofoten.
It is borrowed from early modern Dutch maelstrom (“whirlpool”) (obsolete) (modern Dutch maalstroom), from malen (“to whirl around; to grind”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”)) + stroom (“stream; river; current or flow of water or other liquid”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow, stream”)), and was popularized by Edgar Allen Poe’s short story A Descent into the Maelström (1841).
Cognates
* Danish malstrøm
* German Mahlstrom
* Swedish malström
Inflected forms:
form: maelstroms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maelström
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A large and violent whirlpool.
pos: noun
examples: To his right fell a gleaming sheet of water, and below it was a maelstrom, that made one giddy by its terrific gyrations.
The falukah plunged over a waterfall and was almost submerged, was caught again in a maelstrom and went twirling on in the blackness.
A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake.
gloss: A chaotic or turbulent situation.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: It was of Jean Paul's doing: some single billow in that vast World-Mahlstrom of Humour, with its heaven-kissing coruscations, which is now, alas, all congealed in the frost of death!
He escaped at last, dizzy from the maelstrom of conflicting emotions that had caught and whirled him.
The terminal station, Richmond, is managed by South West Trains, heirs to the London & South Western Railway, and here the District fades into a railway maelstrom, since Richmond is not only on the Waterloo-Reading line but is also the westerly terminus of the London Overground.
A Twitter post intended to celebrate a funny photo of Abby, a “chonk” sea otter at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, instead stirred an online maelstrom of criticism, KNTV reports.
An officer makes his way through the maelstrom to report a serious fire in one of the turrets. Rozhestvensky laconically orders him to try and put it out, as there isn't much he can do from inside the conning tower.
Setting our sights back on King's Landing, where the Last War will be waged, makes a lot of sense, even if it does feel a bit anticlimactic after last week's deadly, blustery maelstrom.
Five, he has no idea what else could be out there. For example, if British doctrine was anything like his own, then even at this moment, dozens of British destroyers might be swarming towards him, about to envelop his forces in a maelstrom of torpedoes, and the first thing he'd know about it is when things start exploding! (Well, even more than they already are now.)
Synonyms: vortex
Derived words: maelstromic
Translations:
obfuscatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obfuscate
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -tōriusder.
Middle English -orie
English -ory
English obfuscatory
From obfuscate + -ory.
Inflected forms:
form: more obfuscatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obfuscatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to obfuscate; intended to conceal the truth by confusion.
pos: adj
examples: I can't vote for a resolution with such obfuscatory language.
Translations:
whilst
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Middle English whilst, whilest, qwhilste (Northern England), quilest (Northwest Midlands) [and other forms], from whiles (“during the time that, while; only so long as; provided that; because, since; until”) + -t (excrescent suffix, perhaps due to a combination of -(e)s and the following word the, or influenced by the superlative suffix -est). Whiles is derived from whiles (“period of time, a while”, noun) (probably from the second element of adverbs and conjunctions like otherwhiles and somewhiles), from while (“period of time, a while”, noun) + -s (suffix forming adverbs of manner, space, and time); and while is from Old English hwīl (“period of time, a while”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hwīlō (“period of time, a while; period of rest, break, pause”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest; peace, rest”). The English word can be analysed as whiles + -t (excrescent suffix appended to words suffixed with -s).
cognates
* West Frisian wylst (“whilst”)
Base: whiles
Affixes: -t
Inflected forms:
form: whilest
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: whylst
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: whylest
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Often preceded by the: During the time; meanwhile.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Nay, I prethee put on this gown, & this beard, make him beleeue thou art ſir Topas the Curate, doe it quickly. Ile call ſir Toby the whilſt.
Hero. Leave, leave, tis novv too late. She is dead, her laſt is breathed. / Cleo[phila]. VVhat ſhall vvee doe. / Her[o]. Goe run, / And tell the Duke; and vvhilſt ile cloſe her eyes.
What money have I bought with me? […] even but a small sum; something in hand the whilst.
Translations:
nelly
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from Nelly Duff, for puff, i.e. breath of life.
Inflected forms:
form: nellies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nellier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: nelliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person's life.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
slang
gloss: Unmanly; effeminate.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: From Christopher Street to Castro Street, these men are peddling the same message. I'm butch, a macho man. Well, it ain't necessarily so. In fact, as a general rule of thumb, the butcher the get-up, the nellier the wearer.
Some of the nelliest boys unable to get or keep a job, some of the toughest girls breaking their bodies trying to do men's work.
Translations:
porky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos
Proto-Italic *porkos
Latin porcus
Old French porcbor.
Middle English pork
English pork
English -y
English porky
From pork + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: porkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: porkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of pork.
pos: adj
examples: It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.
gloss: Rather fat; chubby.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: In front of Lister a small red-haired man, with a porky roll of flesh above his towel-top, was examining a line of girls.
Related words: porker
pork pie
Derived words: porkily
porkiness
porky pie
Translations:
taters
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from taters in the mould.
Inflected forms:
form: more taters
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most taters
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cold.
pos: adj
tags: Cockney
slang
examples: Blimey, it's a bit taters this morning, innit?
Translations:
notion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin nōtiō (“a becoming acquainted, a taking cognizance, an examination, an investigation, a conception, idea, notion”), from nōscō (“to know”). Compare French notion. See know.
Inflected forms:
form: notions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
pos: noun
examples: What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles.
1705-1715, George Cheyne, The Philosophical Principles of Religion Natural and Revealed
there are few that agree in their Notions about them:.
That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which is in the mind, is called the "idea" of hunger, cold, etc.
Notion, again, signifies either the act of apprehending, signalizing, that is, the remarking or taking note of, the various notes, marks, or characters of an object which its qualities afford, or the result of that act.
gloss: A sentiment; an opinion.
pos: noun
examples: The extravagant notion they entertain of themselves.
December 2, 1832, John Henry Newman, Wilfulness, the Sin of Saul
A perverse will easily collects together a system of notions to justify itself in its obliquity.
“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
gloss: Sense; mind.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Who wrought with them, and all things else that might / To half a soul and to a notion crazed / Say, 'Thus did Banquo.'
gloss: An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Yankee notions
gloss: Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, either for attachment to garments or as a tool, such as a button, zipper, or thimble.
pos: noun
gloss: Inclination; intention; predisposition; disposition.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: I have a notion to do it.
gloss: Pretentiousness or overambition.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
colloquial
in-plural
Related words: concept
conception
meaning
Derived words: notionable
notional
notionate
notioned
notionist
notionless
notiony
prenotion
primitive notion
Translations:
barrack
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from French baraque, from Spanish barraca or Catalan barraca, which is of uncertain origin. It is probably either a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar”), of unclear origin, or a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”) from Celtiberian or Paleo-Hispanic.
Inflected forms:
form: barracks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: barracks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: barracking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: barracked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: barracked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Before the gates of Bari, he lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches, and thatched with straw; a perilous station, on all sides open to the inclemency of the winter and the spears of the enemy.
1919, House Committee on Military Affairs, Army Reorganization: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 1st Session, on H.R. 8287, H.R. 8068, H.R. 7925, H.R. 8870, Sept. 3, 1919-Nov. 12, 1919, Parts 23-43, page 1956,
How do you distinguish between the disciplinary barracks and the penitentiary? Where are the disciplinary barracks ?
I know the barracks at the training camp out on the moors.
gloss: A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
in-plural
gloss: A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A police station.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
colloquial
plural-normally
gloss: To house military personnel; to quarter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Where the men were barracked alone, unnatural crime prevailed : where the women were barracked, contrivances were made to render such a place a brothel.
gloss: To live in barracks.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: barrack buster
barracker
Barrack Hill
barrack-room lawyer
barrack stanchion
hay barrack
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: бара́к
roman: barák
lang: Bulgarian
word: бара́ка
roman: baráka
lang: Danish
word: barak
lang: German
word: Baracke
lang: Italian
word: baracca
lang: Polish
word: barak
lang: Russian
word: бара́к
roman: barák
lang: Sicilian
word: barracca
lang: Swedish
word: barack
lang: Turkish
word: baraka
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: باراقه
roman: baraka
lang: Ukrainian
word: бара́к
roman: barák
baaing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English baa
English -ing
English baaing
From baa + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: baaings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The bleating of a sheep.
pos: noun
Translations:
babbler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English babeler, babler, equivalent to babble + -er.
Base: babble
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: babblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who babbles.
pos: noun
examples: Great babblers, or talkers, are[…] not fit […]for trust.
gloss: Any of several passerine birds, of the families Timaliidae and Paradoxornithidae (both found in Asia, Africa) and Pomatostomidae (found in Australia).
pos: noun
gloss: A hound who is too noisy on finding a good scent.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Derived words: Australo-Papuan babbler
Bengal babbler
black-capped babbler
glissando babbler
grey-chested babbler
ground babbler
jewel-babbler
jungle babbler
psychobabbler
rail-babbler
scimitar babbler
shrike-babbler
Sikkim wedge-billed babbler
striated babbler
tit-babbler
white-headed babbler
wren-babbler
yellow-eyed babbler
Translations:
babish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-
Proto-Germanic *bō-redup.
Proto-Germanic *babô
Proto-West Germanic *babō
Old English *baba
Middle English babe
English babe
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English babish
From babe + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more babish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most babish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like a babe; childish; babyish.
pos: adj
examples: Spoons, you know, are to feed us with weak and thin food, even with that which best suiteth with weak stomachs, or with a babish temper.
For, if a young gentleman be demure and still of mature, they say he is simple and lacketh wit; if he be bashful, and will soon blush, they call him a babish and ill brought up thing;
The rot of schools Of medieval time Is Christmas, a pleasing mime To babish minds, Its tinsel blinds The eyes of Thought, 'Tis rot, rot, all rot; And not for me !
Translations:
babyhood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-
Proto-Germanic *bō-redup.
Proto-Germanic *babô
Proto-West Germanic *babō
Old English *baba
Middle English babe
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
Middle English baby
English baby
Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der.
Proto-Germanic *haiduzder.
Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder.
Old English -hād
Middle English -hede
English -hood
English babyhood
From baby + -hood.
Inflected forms:
form: babyhoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or period of infancy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Radulph hid his face in his hands and for the first time since babyhood, prayed […]
Translations:
babyish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-
Proto-Germanic *bō-redup.
Proto-Germanic *babô
Proto-West Germanic *babō
Old English *baba
Middle English babe
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
Middle English baby
English baby
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English babyish
From baby + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more babyish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most babyish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like or suitable for a baby or a young child; childish
pos: adj
examples: For a young man, he has the most babyish voice I've heard.
Clothes like these are too babyish for a child his age.
As soon as the King and the rest of the hunting party had set off, she began making a tour of the whole castle and asking questions, but all in such an innocent, babyish way that no one could suspect her of any secret design.
Translations:
Babylonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an. By surface analysis, Babylon + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Babelian.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Babylonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the city of Babylon, or the Babylonian Empire.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
gloss: Roman Catholic (with reference to e.g. Revelation 14–18).
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
not-comparable
obsolete
examples: [W]e, on our parts, have learned to speak only the primitive language of the law, and not the confused jargon of their Babylonian pulpits.
gloss: Characteristic of Babylon or its civilization and inhabitants; huge, decadent, indulgent. .
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: The first was in the Babylonian halls of the big hotel, which was the meeting place of the three commercial magnates concerned with arranging for a coal lock-out and denouncing it as a coal strike,
gloss: An inhabitant of the city of Babylon.
pos: noun
gloss: An inhabitant of Babylonia, which included Chaldea; a Chaldean.
pos: noun
gloss: An astrologer; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
pos: noun
Translations:
bac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French bac.
Inflected forms:
form: bacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
pos: noun
gloss: A vat or cistern.
pos: noun
Translations:
baccalaureate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1625; borrowed from French baccalauréat, from Medieval Latin baccalaureātus, from Medieval Latin baccalaureus, an alteration made to baccalārius (“young man aspiring to knighthood, apprentice, bachelor”) for it to resemble bacca lauri (“laurel berry”) (the ancient symbol of victory). See bachelor and -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: baccalaureates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bacc
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bac
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bachelor's degree.
pos: noun
gloss: A high school completion exam and qualification awarded in many countries (e.g. Finland, France, Moldova, Romania), designed to enable students to pursue higher education.
pos: noun
gloss: A farewell address in the form of a sermon delivered to a graduating class.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The International Baccalaureate.
pos: noun
Related words: advanced degree
doctorate
master's degree
Derived words: postbaccalaureate
Translations: