yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
exclusion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English exclusion, exclusioun, from Old French [Term?] and Latin exclusiō, from exclūdō. By surface analysis, exclude + -sion.
Inflected forms:
form: exclusions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mr. JOHNSON: But this amendment does not go far enough. I suppose the framers of the amendment thought it was necessary to provide for such an exigency. I do not see but that any one of these gentlemen may be elected President or Vice President of the United States, and why did you omit to exclude them? I do not understand them to be excluded from the privilege of holding the two highest offices in the gift of the nation. No man is to be a Senator or Representative or an elector for President or Vice President——
Mr. MORRILL: Let me call the Senator's attention to the words "or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States."
Mr. JOHNSON: Perhaps I am wrong as to the exclusion from the Presidency: no doubt I am; but I was misled by noticing the specific exclusion in the case of Senators and Representatives. But I submit to the Senate whether it is advisable, whether it is politic, looking to the end which we all seek to accomplish, the true restoration of the Union, a union of hearts as well as a union of hands, that you should exclude the large mass of people from participating in the honors of the Government who will be excluded by this provision.
Two Dutch journalists entering the country were detained at JFK International Airport March 30 because they openly declared that they were homosexuals. They were subsequently released on parole pending an exclusion hearing in Manhattan April 2.
It was also a satisfying night for England coach Capello. Not only did he have a vital victory to celebrate, but his team selection was fully justified as Cahill gave an almost flawless performance in defence and Scott Parker's display made light of the surprising exclusion of Frank Lampard.
gloss: The act of pushing or forcing something out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: For the exclusion of animals is not merely passive like that of eggs, nor the total action of delivery to be imputed unto the mother, but the first attempt beginneth from the infant [...].
gloss: An item not covered by an insurance policy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: inclusion
Derived words: antiexclusion
bioexclusion
competitive exclusion
exclusionary
exclusion chromatography
Exclusioner
exclusionism
exclusionist
exclusion unit
exclusion zone
internal exclusion
nonexclusion
overexclusion
Pauli exclusion principle
self-exclusion
size-exclusion chromatography
statutory exclusion
to the exclusion of
Translations:
wetting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wettings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making something wet.
pos: noun
examples: It is usual to expect, that the first two or three wettings or steepings of grain, at the commencement of the malting season, will not make so good malt as succeeding steepings […]
gloss: The act of accidental urination on or in something.
pos: noun
gloss: An act of murdering or seriously injuring someone.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
US
slang
examples: Earned my name name for all of them wettings
If I let you live, then give blessings
gloss: That makes (something) wet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: bedwetting
pant-wetting
wetting down
wetting machine
Translations:
injustice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English injustice, from Old French injustice, from Latin iniustitia. Equivalent to in- + justice. Displaced native Old English unrihtwīsnes.
Base: justice
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: injustices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Absence of justice; unjustice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Violation of the rights of another person or people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Silence in the face of gross injustice, or support for it, or even active involvement therein, comes at a price.
I was not just the President of Southern Americans or white Americans. I was the President of all Americans. I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States. I did not think that our nation could endure much longer as a viable democracy if that injustice were allowed to continue.
The movie delivers a critical and analytical 'unfolding of the circumstances of Reality [Winner]’s life, starting with her childhood in Texas, in order to reveal her sense of deceptions and injustices that pass largely unchallenged in everyday American life.
gloss: Unfairness; the state of not being fair or just.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.
Synonyms: justicelessness
unjustice
wrength
wrong
Related words: injustly
injust
just
justice
unjust
Derived words: do injustice
Injustice
injustice collecting
injustice collection
injustice collector
Translations:
wheedle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps continuing Middle English wedlen (“to beg, ask for alms”), from Old English wǣdlian (“to be poor, be needy, be in want, beg”), from Proto-Germanic *wēþlōną (“to be in need”).
Alternatively , borrowed from German wedeln (“to wag one's tail”), from Middle High German wedelen, a byform of Middle High German wadelen (“to wander, waver, wave, whip, stroke, flutter”), from Old High German wādalōn (“to wander, roam, rove”). In this case, it may be a doublet of waddle, or an independently formed etymological equivalent.
The ⟨wh⟩ spelling (reflecting pronunciations with /ʍ/) is apparently unetymological.
Inflected forms:
form: wheedles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wheedling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wheedled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wheedled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.
[…]whether, after preventing her from being the wife of Sir Walter, he may not be wheedled and caressed at last into making her the wife of Sir William.
“Brother Peter,” he said, in a wheedling yet gravely official tone, “It’s nothing but right I should speak to you about the Three Crofts and the Manganese. The Almighty knows what I’ve got on my mind—”
Anyhow, you can't wheedle him this time. He's as bent as I am.
Though he had beaten me in every bone / He still could wheedle me to love.
gloss: To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If the worſt come to the worſt,—I'll turn my Wife to Graſs—I already have a deed of Settlement of the beſt part of her Eſtate; which I wheadl'd out of her; [...]
She tore off my cap, scratched, kicked, and buffetted me, till she had exhausted her strength, declaring, as she rested her arm, ‘that I had wheedled her husband from her.
[…]when their best resources were the flitches of bacon and measures of corn, out of which they wheedled poor serfs and bondsmen, in exchange for their prayers[…]
Derived words: wheedler
wheedling
wheedlesome
Translations:
wheelbarrow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
Proto-Germanic *hweulō
Old English hwēol
Middle English whel
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.
Proto-Germanic *barwijǭ
Proto-West Germanic *barwijā
Old English *bearwe
Middle English barwe
Middle English whelbarwe
English wheelbarrow
From Middle English whelbarwe; equivalent to wheel + barrow.
Base: wheel
Inflected forms:
form: wheelbarrows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wheelbarrows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wheelbarrowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wheelbarrowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wheelbarrowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.
pos: noun
examples: One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.
Space for the concrete batching plant was found some little distance down the line, and from here a total of 60 tons of concrete was despatched in a wheelbarrow on a railway trolley.
The line was built by navvies using little more than wheelbarrows and shovels, with whatever material was close at hand, and the railway suffered from earthworks problems right from the start.
gloss: To convey in a wheelbarrow.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cause the weight of an aeroplane to become concentrated around the nosewheel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
wheelbase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
Proto-Germanic *hweulō
Old English hwēol
Middle English whel
English wheel
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis
Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis
Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor.
Latin basis
Old French basebor.
Middle English base
English base
English wheelbase
From wheel + base.
Inflected forms:
form: wheelbases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The horizontal distance between the front and rear axles of a road or rail vehicle.
pos: noun
examples: Beneath the snow, and after we had left it behind, the road was as greasy as vaseline, as steep as a scenic railway, and often not a yard wider than the lorry’s wheelbase.
The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.
He thought the types of wagons planned (short-wheelbase types) needed reassessment.
Translations:
anally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anal
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English anally
From anal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more anally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most anally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Involving the anus.
pos: adv
examples: Martin penetrated his partner anally.
The doctor will examine the patient anally.
gloss: In an anal manner.
pos: adv
Derived words: abanally
anally inflicted death sentence
Translations:
carpetbag
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From carpet + bag.
Compound parts: carpet
bag
Inflected forms:
form: carpetbags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carpet-bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: carpetbags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carpetbagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: carpetbagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: carpetbagged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: carpet-bag
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: carpet-bag
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19ᵗʰ century.
pos: noun
examples: Pen jumped out of the carriage then, his carpet-bag in hand, and briskly determined to face his fortune.
gloss: To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: The Five Star Movement has long railed against carpetbagging, but for all of Ms. D’Alessandro’s efforts to seem of the place — talking about her childhood in Naples and showing the bar where she had her first date — she clearly isn’t.
gloss: Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: carpetbag travels
Translations:
frug
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps related to frig.
Inflected forms:
form: frugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: frugs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: frugging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: frugged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: frugged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s.
pos: noun
examples: She [...] loves to cook, sew and dance. She's up on all the latest steps like the frug, the hully-gully and the surf.
Like I figure it would be best at that point to break for a fifteen minute Frug or Watusi.
The snake did the frug, the monkey did the shake. The crowd, mostly young couples, tourists and kids, loved it.
They were doing a modified frug, a dance Ruth had learned—and abandoned—in high school.
gloss: To perform this dance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Joan Baez's frugging on several occasions gave the festival the added flair of an Arthur Murray Dance Party.
"Do you like frugging?" "I'm not sure I..." "Oh, come on." Betty danced.
A snake charmer merely hypnotizes the creature with his movements. So I began to move the flute, just as Gopal had done. Now I had the cobra frugging.
In telegraphic succession, the parents two-step, Charleston, lindy, twist, and frug, their dance harmony always splintered apart by their offspring.
Translations:
Gmail
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Google + mail.
Compound parts: Google
mail
Inflected forms:
form: Gmails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gmail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: GMail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: G-mail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Gmails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Gmailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Gmailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Gmailed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gmail
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: GMail
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: G-mail
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Gmail account.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Afterwards, when Alex had dozed off, I […] logged on to my Gmail. I sat, gazing at him sleeping and really didn’t know what to write.
[H]e saw an endless stack of Gmail accounts, one after the other. The tips of his fingers became cold as bone. He aimed at one of the Gmails and opened it, but he needed a user name and a password.
Then I switched to my Gmail and found a heart-melting email from Rustem (Jordan), who was born in Kazakhstan and then adopted by an American family.
gloss: An e-mail sent using Gmail.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Although the service was free, Google planned to make money. It would include ads, or “sponsored links,” with each Gmail. […] For example, if someone wrote about a planned vacation, the person receiving the Gmail might notice sponsored links for airlines, travel agencies, or car rentals. Did this mean someone at Google was reading the Gmails? No, but many users were uneasy and indignant.
My wife, Betty, for helping me get through the Gmails and the computer know-how.
Clearly he is alluding to the Gmails I sent parodying the well-known Dead Sea Scrolls pundit and distinguished department chairman Lawrence Schiffman of New York University—parodies that made him appear to be accusing himself of misconduct.
gloss: To send (someone) an e-mail using Gmail.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
informal
examples: Gmail me!
I Googled my professor and found his home page . . . I Gmailed him my report.
Translations:
wiseacre
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle Dutch wijssegger (“soothsayer”), from Old High German wīzzago, wīzago (“wise man, prophet, soothsayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītagō (“wise one; prophet”). Cognate with Old English wītga (“wise man, prophet”). See also German Weissager (“soothsayer, seer”).
Inflected forms:
form: wiseacres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wiseacres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wiseacring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wiseacred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wiseacred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart.
pos: noun
examples: That other class of wiseacres who twist prophecy in such a manner as to make it promise the destruction and desolation of the same city, use judgement just as bad, since the city is in a very flourishing condition now, unhappily for them.
But noooooo! Some wiseacre “expert” will patronizingly explain that because gymnast Kim Zmeskal’s left little toenail was off center by the length of an eyelash, the judges will be forced to dock a tenth of a point from her score.
gloss: A learned or wise man.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: A fool's paradise is better than a wiseacre's purgatory.
Peter Gower, a Grecian, journied for cunning in Egypt, and in Syria, and in every land where the Venetians had planted Masonry; and winning entrance into all lodges of Masons, he learned much, and returned and dwelt in Grecia Magna; watching and becoming a mighty wiseacre, and greatly renowned, and here he framed a grat lodge at Groton, (Crotona. Mr. Locke,) and maked many Masons; wherefrom, in process of time, the art passed into England.
At their village the woman consulted the local wiseacre, explaining the difficulties her son-in-law was creating.
gloss: To act like a wiseacre; to wisecrack.
pos: verb
Translations:
shire
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English schire (“region, shire, county”) [and other forms], from Old English sċīr (“administrative region under an alderman and sheriff, shire; district under a governor or official; status of an official, office”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *skīru (“district; status of an official, office”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Latin cūra (“care, concern; administration, charge, management; command, office”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed; to see”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: shires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region) into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: County Longford was shired in 1586.
[I]t made no Matter, if the Countrie vvere never ſhired, nor her Majesties VVritt othervviſe curraunt then it is; for humblye he kepeth all his People ſubiect to Obedience and good Order; […]
[pages 209–210] But vvhether it vvere ſo eſtabliſhed Egbert, Alfred, or Edvvard, vvhen they had brought it to a Monarchy, and Shired it out into parts, or that they vvere appointed Earls in every County, vvhich had an Inheritance therein, and had Juriſdiction, as by the County Court and Sheriffs Turns, it vvould ſeem it vvas: Is the Queſtion I deſire to be reſolved of. […] [page 211] But thus I do conjecture it to be, That at the firſt Unitining^([sic – meaning Uniting?]) of the Heptarchy of the Saxons, and the Shiring out of the Kingdom, it vvas divided into Shires, and the Shires again into Hundreds, as it fell out, in ſome more, in ſome leſs: […]
The history of the shiring of Ireland is involved in more obscurity than the history of the shiring of England, though not for the same reason in the two cases. […] [T]he shiring of Ireland was purely the result of the English conquest.
In Ulster the great chieftains had become peers of the realm. The province was shired into nine counties, with sheriffs and the whole apparatus of English local government.
[T]raditionally the shiring of England is thought to have been the work of Edward the Elder and Æthelstan, and the appearance of the shire reeve is placed somewhat later; but recent work suggests that developments may have been more gradual, with shiring first becoming systematic under Edgar and his successors and the shire reeve emerging as part of this process.
Translations:
pretentious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French prétentieux, from prétention, from Latin praetēnsus (“false or hypocritical profession”), past participle of praetendō.
Note that pretentious is spelled with a ‘t’, unlike related pretense, pretension. This is due to the French spelling: *-sious does not occur as an English suffix, though -sion and -tion both do.
Inflected forms:
form: more pretentious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pretentious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: prætentious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Motivated by an inappropriate, excessive, or unjustified desire to impress others.
pos: adj
examples: Her dress was obviously more pretentious than comfortable.
I recall the height of comfort attained by the green-cushioned "first" with starched white antimacassars and a pretentious grey floor mat on which it seemed a sacrilege to stand, as it was embellished with the North Western conception of Britannia, complete with trident.
gloss: Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
pos: adj
examples: Their song titles are pretentious in the context of their basic lyrics.
The station (1840) was originally Cheltenham but the more grandiose Cheltenham Spa since 1925, which feels a bit pretentious as the town has never allowed itself to assume such airs and graces.
gloss: Marked by pretense (not necessarily false pretense); intent upon success; ambitious.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: ... the first definite and pretentious attempt to make the wardrobe trunk a commercial possibility ... The new trunk would be exploited direct to the traveling public, and he had the means for a pretentious start.
Synonyms: highfalutin
affected
effete
fey
recherché
hoity-toity
overrefined
pansified
precious
pretentious
smug
stagy
stilted
theatrical
Woosterian
Antonyms: unpretentious
humble
modest
demure
formal
natural
priggish
prim
prudish
puritanical
Quakerish
Related words: false pretense
pretend
pretender
pretense
pretension
pretentiosity
fastidious
gaudy
simpering
Derived words: nonpretentious
pretentiously
pretentiousness
Translations:
smart-aleck
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more smart-aleck
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most smart-aleck
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: smart-alec
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a smart aleck.
pos: adj
examples: smart-aleck remarks
Translations:
wisecrack
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wise + crack.
Compound parts: wise
crack
Inflected forms:
form: wisecracks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wisecracks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wisecracking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wisecracked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wisecracked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A witty or sarcastic comment or quip.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:joke
Cut it out, Sis, an' lissen ter er wise crack. Will yer be nice if I pay yer fine?
gloss: To make a sarcastic, flippant, or sardonic comment.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
sometimes
transitive
Translations:
witty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English witty, witti, from Old English wittiġ, witiġ, ġewittiġ (“clever, wise”), from Proto-West Germanic *witīg, *witag, from Proto-Germanic *witagaz, *wītagaz (“knowing, wise, clever”), equivalent to wit + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German wittich, gewittich (“knowing, clever, wise, understanding”), German witzig (“funny, witty”), Norwegian Bokmål vettig, Norwegian Nynorsk vittig (“witty”).
Base: wit
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: wittier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wittiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Clever; amusingly ingenious.
pos: adj
examples: His speech was both witty and informative.
gloss: Full of wit.
pos: adj
examples: His frequent quips mark him as particularly witty.
gloss: Quick of mind; insightful; in possession of wits.
pos: adj
examples: She may have grown older, but she has grown no less witty.
gloss: Wise, having good judgement.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Possessing a strong intellect or intellectual capacity; intelligent, skilful, ingenious.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: It hath beene a witty invention[…]to establish and ordaine certaine vaine and worthles markes, therewith to honor and recompence vertue[…].
Synonyms: facetious
humorous
jocose
jocular
quick
lively
witty
amusing
bright
diverting
droll
entertaining
piquant
quick on the draw
quick-witted
sharp
tongue-in-cheek
Antonyms: brainless
lowbrow
stupid
witless
corny
hackneyed
lame
humorless
uncomic
unfunny
earnest
grave
serious
sober
solemn
somber
Related words: kitty witty
joke
funny
intelligent
Translations:
jocose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin iocōsus (“humorous”), from iocus (“jest, joke”).
Inflected forms:
form: more jocose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jocose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: given to jesting; habitually jolly
pos: adj
tags: formal
examples: Adde to this diſsipated and diſtracted ſtate of Miniſters, their private diſtreſſes and poverties, together with the publick neglect and indifferency of people toward them; who can wonder if they look pitifully one on another, which no jocoſe or juvenile drolings can relieve?
Jocose flesh-eaters take a malicious delight in pointing out and enumerating to Vegetarians the many animal substances now in common use, and in taunting them with inconsistency in using them.
The American people, / With grins jocose, / Always survive the fatal dose.
gloss: playful; characterized by joking
pos: adj
tags: formal
Related words: jocular
jocund
Derived words: jocosely
jocoseness
jocoserious
jocosity
unjocose
Translations:
dum
Part of speech: adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Hindi दम (dam).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: cooked with steam
pos: adj
tags: India
not-comparable
gloss: Syllable used when humming a tune.
pos: intj
examples: I like to hang out with friends and travel the world. But if there's one thing I really love, it's Doctor Who. Dum de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum. Whooo-eee-oooo dum de dum, de dum de dum.
Translations:
backhand
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
racquet-sports
skating
sports
surfing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English back
Proto-Germanic *handuz
Proto-West Germanic *handu
Old English hand
Middle English hond
English hand
English backhand
From back + hand.
Inflected forms:
form: backhands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: backhands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backhanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backhanded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backhanded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more backhand
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most backhand
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
pos: noun
examples: She has a mean backhand.
gloss: Handwriting that leans to the left.
pos: noun
examples: It was written in a shaky backhand.
gloss: The standard throw; a throw during which the disc begins on the off-hand side and travels across the chest to be released from the opposite side.
pos: noun
gloss: The back of the hand: the reverse side (dorsal side) of the human hand or other primate hand.
pos: noun
gloss: The hand towards the back of the board.
pos: noun
gloss: To execute a backhand stroke or throw.
pos: verb
gloss: To slap with the back of one's hand.
pos: verb
examples: During the boxing match, I accidentally backhanded my opponent.
While Joe is driving, Bob gets upset and wants to go back to set up. Bob and Joe argue for a few seconds. Then, Bob grabs the wheel and nearly causes us to hit a tree. In response, Joe backhands Bob and tells him to immediately stop or he will get us killed. Bob says that he was just trying to get us back on track and that he was joking.
gloss: Slanting to the left.
pos: adj
examples: In great confusion, Gordon accepted the letter, broke its small crested seal, and began reading the neat back-hand scrawl.
gloss: In the backhand style.
pos: adj
gloss: Using the back side of the hockey stick.
pos: adj
examples: He scored on a backhand shot.
Related words: backhanded
Translations:
bonze
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French bonze, from Portuguese bonzo, from Japanese 凡僧 (bonzō), from Middle Chinese 凡 (bjom, “ordinary”) + 僧 (song, “Buddhist monk”).
Base: 凡
Inflected forms:
form: bonzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bonzee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bonzo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Buddhist monk or priest in East Asia.
pos: noun
Translations:
droll
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French drôle (“comical, odd, funny”), from drôle (“buffoon”) from Middle French drolle (“a merry fellow, pleasant rascal”) from Old French drolle (“one who lives luxuriously”), from Middle Dutch drol (“fat little man, goblin”), itself from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą. Doublet of drôle and troll.
Inflected forms:
form: droller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: drollest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.
pos: adj
examples: Very droll, minister.
The Theatre of Puppets, or Marionetti—a famous company from Milan—is, without any exception, the drollest exhibition I ever beheld in my life. I never saw anything so exquisitely ridiculous.
Translations:
piquant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French piquant (“pricking, stimulating, irritating”), present participle of piquer, possibly from Old French pikier (“to prick, sting, nettle”). Doublet of picong. Related to pike.
Inflected forms:
form: more piquant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most piquant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: piquante
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Causing hurt feelings; scathing, severe.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Stimulating to the senses; engaging; charming.
pos: adj
examples: Their husbands […] leave home to seek for more agreeable, may I be allowed to use a significant French word, piquant society […]
He looked after her as she retreated, with a fondness which was rendered more piquant, as it were, by the mixture of a certain scorn which accompanied it.
gloss: Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy.
pos: adj
examples: Pork Chops with Apple and Port These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.
Elsewhere in South America, excepting Bahia in Brazil, one does not encounter piquant cuisine, although one may stumble on a piquant dish now and then […]
French charcuterie relies on cloves in the quatre épices, or four-spice powder, for seasoning fine sausages and piquant marinades.
gloss: Producing a burning sensation due to the presence of chilies or similar spices; spicy, hot.
pos: adj
Derived words: piquancy
piquantly
piquantness
unpiquant
Translations:
broil
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English broylen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs:
* bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *brōjan (“to burn, scald”)
* usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulō (“to scorch”)
Inflected forms:
form: broils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: broiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: broiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: broiled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: broils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cook by direct, radiant heat.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
obsolete
transitive
examples: To broil a pigeon. When you broil them, do them in the same manner, and take care your fire is very clear, and set your gridiron high, that they may not burn, and have a little parsley and butter in a cup. You may split them, and broil them with a little pepper and salt, and you may roast them only with a little parsley and butter in a dish.
To broil Red Mullet. Neither seale nor gut your mullet, wipe them very clean in a cloth, butter half a sheet of writing paper for each fish, put them in, and fasten it all round; have a very clear fire, broil them very gently for twenty minutes, hen put them in a dish, with anchovy sauce and plain butter in boats.
To broil fish. To broil trout in a third way. When they are cleaned and washed, dry them well in a napkin. Then bind them about with packthread, sprinkle them with melted butter and salt, and broil them over a gentle fire, turning them from time to time.
gloss: To expose to great heat.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
transitive
gloss: To be exposed to great heat.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
intransitive
gloss: Food prepared by broiling.
pos: noun
examples: Cluffe, externally acquiescing, had yet made up his mind, if a decent opportunity presented, to be detected and made prisoner, and that the honest troubadours should sup on a hot broil, and sip some of the absent General's curious Madeira at the feet of their respective mistresses, with all the advantage which a situation so romantic and so private would offer.
Related words: griddle
Derived words: broast
broilable
broiler
broilsome
broil up
charbroil
overbroil
pan-broil
panbroil
unbroiled
Translations:
doodad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown; attested since the 1880s. Compare earlier daud (“a piece of something”), later doohickey (“a thing (whose name one cannot recall)”), dialectal dad, dadge (“a large piece, chunk”).
Inflected forms:
form: doodads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doo-dad
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dodad
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: do-dad
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dodab
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to refer to something whose name one cannot recall: an unspecified device, gadget, part, or thing.
pos: noun
examples: My mom has a clever doodad for peeling oranges.
Of course I eat an apple every evening—an apple a day keeps the doctor away—but still, you ought to have more prunes, and not all these fancy doodads.
The room was too big, the ceiling was too high, the doors were too tall, and the white carpet that went from wall to wall looked like a fresh fall of snow at Lake Arrowhead. There were full-length mirrors and crystal doodads all over the place.
The reason is that not all bomblets explode as they’re meant to, and thousands of small, unexploded grenades can lie around for years, even decades, before somebody — often, a child spotting a brightly colored, battery-size doodad on the ground — accidentally sets it off.
Translations:
whereof
Part of speech: conj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wherof; equivalent to where + of. Compare the parallel formations of Swedish varav and Dutch waaraf.
Base: where
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of what.
pos: conj
tags: formal
gloss: Of which.
pos: conj
tags: formal
examples: SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently.
TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie,
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.
Then they set somewhat of food before me, whereof I ate my fill, and gave me somewhat of clothes wherewith I clad myself anew and covered my nakedness; after which they took me up into the ship, […]
gloss: Of whom.
pos: conj
tags: formal
examples: Now one day of the days, […] the Sultan cast his eyes upon her as she stood before him, and said to his Grand Wazir, “This be the very woman whereof I spake to thee yesterday, so do thou straightway bring her before me, that I may see what be her suit and fulfil her need.”
gloss: With or by which.
pos: conj
tags: archaic
Related words: whence
Derived words: in witness whereof
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: от който
roman: ot kojto
lang: Bulgarian
word: от каквото
roman: ot kakvoto
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 甚么的
lang: Danish
word: hvoraf
lang: Dutch
word: waarvan
lang: Esperanto
word: pri kiu
lang: Finnish
word: minkä
lang: French
word: dont
lang: German
word: wovon
lang: Hungarian
word: amiből
lang: Hungarian
word: amelyből
lang: Hungarian
word: akiből
lang: Hungarian
word: amiről
lang: Hungarian
word: amelyről
lang: Hungarian
word: akiről
lang: Latin
word: unde
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: hvorav
lang: Portuguese
word: donde
lang: Spanish
word: donde
lang: Swedish
word: varav
wherewithal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From where- + withal. Originally only an adverb, nominal use since ca. 1800.
Base: withal
Affixes: where-
Inflected forms:
form: wherewithals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ability and means required to accomplish some task.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I would like to help your project, but I do not have the wherewithal.
Justice was sold at the tribunals, and the most enormous crimes escaped from punishment, when the criminals had wherewithal to corrupt their judges.
Big Council meeting! At the bookshop in twenty minutes. Carfare will be refunded. Can we scrape together the wherewithal?
"I just can't imagine," Philip said, "having that kind of self-knowledge, that kind of...wherewithal at fifteen.[…]"
[…] A single slice of this could leave you supine in front of the Queen's speech without even the wherewithal to reach for the remote control.
Although Emma comes to realise she's trapped in a kind of hell, married to a dullard she despises, she lacks the intellectual wherewithal to plot a breakout more sophisticated than consorting with idiots such as Leon and Rodolphe.
In political economic terms, the pandemic worked to intensify a development that the decline in the neoliberal order had already set in motion: namely, a conviction that government was the only institution with the wherewithal to address severe economic and social hardship.
Translations:
whetstone
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English whestone, whetston, whetesston, from Old English hwetstān, from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjastain (“whetstone”). Equivalent to whet (“to sharpen”) + stone.
Compound parts: whet
stone
Inflected forms:
form: whetstones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whetstoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whetstoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whetstoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To sharpen with a whetstone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonym: hone (verb)
Translations:
reckoning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Gerund of the verb reckon, from reckon + -ing. Compare Dutch rekening, German Rechnung.
Base: reckon
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: reckonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of calculating or estimating something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.
So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.
When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
gloss: An opinion or judgement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: day of reckoning
gloss: A summing up or appraisal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My mother's father was a small-town school teacher, an occupation with somewhat more status (teachers are petit bourgeois by the standard reckoning) which nevertheless provided little more income than on my father's side.
The research presented in this paper is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reckoning of an expanding set of portmanteau terms based on the word English.
gloss: The settlement of accounts, as between parties.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: Rank or status.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Synonyms: computation
Derived words: day of reckoning
dead reckoning
Dutch reckoning
final reckoning
off-reckoning
Translations:
stacker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stack
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 stacker
From stack + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: stackers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any person or thing that stacks.
pos: noun
examples: As behavioral scientists we are not good block stackers — we don't replicate enough or build systematically across knowledge bases.
gloss: Any person or thing that stacks.
pos: noun
gloss: Any person or thing that stacks.
pos: noun
gloss: Any device allowing items to be stacked.
pos: noun
examples: a spring-loaded plate stacker in a cafeteria
gloss: Any device allowing items to be stacked.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who collects precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: diaper stacker
four-stacker
full-stacker
nappy stacker
reach stacker
shelf stacker
speed stacker
stacker crane
Translations:
traveled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more traveled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most traveled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: travelled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Frequented by travelers.
pos: adj
examples: We climbed up a well traveled path.
Here moss engreens the travelled stone; […]
gloss: Experienced in travel.
pos: adj
examples: Our guide was a much traveled young man.
Thou bringest the sailor to his wife,
⁠And travell’d men from foreign lands;
⁠And letters unto trembling hands;
And, thy dark freight, a vanish’d life.
Translations:
whimper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dialectal whimp (“to whine”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare German wimmern (“to whimper, whine”).
Base: whimp
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: whimpers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whimpers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whimpering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whimpered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whimpered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A low intermittent sob.
pos: noun
gloss: To cry or sob softly and intermittently.
pos: verb
examples: The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.
At the sight of Mr. Utterson, the housemaid broke into hysterical whimpering; and the cook, crying out 'Bless God! it's Mr. Utterson,' ran forward as if to take him in her arms.
gloss: To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain.
pos: verb
examples: Was ther euer yet prechers, but ther wer gainſayers? that ſpurned? that winſt? that whimpered againſt him?
gloss: To say something in a whimpering manner.
pos: verb
examples: “Master, please don’t punish me!” he whimpered.
Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.
Synonyms: mewl
Derived words: whimperative
Translations:
whinny
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English whynyen, whinien, akin to Middle English whinen (“to whine”).
Inflected forms:
form: whinnies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whinney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whinnies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whinnying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whinnied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whinnied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: whinney
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A gentle neigh.
pos: noun
examples: And moving out they found the stately horse, / Who now no more a vassal to the thief, / But free to stretch his limbs in lawful fight, / Neigh'd with all gladness as they came, and stoop'd / With a low whinny toward the pair: […]
When my wife and I heard a plaintive whinny from our laundry room the other day, we knew that our old dryer had cycled its last load.
gloss: To make a gentle neigh.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Cattle lowed here and there, and horses whinnied to be fed.
A pony whinnied a short distance from the hut.
[John Gray] whinnies like a donnish Houyhnhnm[.]
Translations:
whiplash
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From whip + lash.
Compound parts: whip
lash
Inflected forms:
form: whiplashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whiplashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whiplashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whiplashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whiplashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The lash of a whip.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An injury to the upper spine connected to a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction, resembling the motion of a whip.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Of the nine staff in the third coach, most had been having a break, drinking tea or reading. One suffered a fractured skull, another a fractured shoulder. All were either thrown along or across the coach, sustaining cuts, bruising and whiplash injuries.
gloss: An abrupt and unexpected change, or the resulting feeling of shock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: tonal whiplash
Some parents, feeling too hurt by the push-off or taking their teenager’s rejections too personally, choose to make themselves unavailable. In some ways it does feel better to avoid episodes of emotional whiplash.
A week of public health reversals from the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has left Americans with pandemic whiplash, sowing confusion about coronavirus vaccines and mask-wearing as the Delta variant upends what people thought they knew about how to stay safe.
And he talked about the “whiplash” he often feels when it comes to A.I. these days, as some people urge companies like Google to move faster on A.I., release more products and take bigger risks, while others urge them to slow down and be more cautious.
gloss: To jerk back and forth; to buffet.
pos: verb
examples: […] Ms. Kennedy has been whiplashed by assertions that she is at once protected and presumptuous.
gloss: To lash as if with a whip.
pos: verb
examples: After a while, he let go of my hand in order to protect his own face from being whiplashed by the low branches.
Translations: