yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
oppressing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more oppressing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oppressing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: oppressive
pos: adj
Translations:
spherically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spherical
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 spherically
From spherical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of a sphere or globe.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
spirea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek σπεῖρα (speîra, “coil”).
Inflected forms:
form: spireas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the many flowering shrubs of the genus Spiraea, that have clusters of white or pink flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the flowering plants of the genus Astilbe.
pos: noun
Related words: aspirin
spiral
Translations:
speedwell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From speed + well.
Compound parts: speed
well
Inflected forms:
form: speedwells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant of the genus Veronica
pos: noun
Translations:
spicule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin spīculum.
Inflected forms:
form: spicules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sharp, needle-like piece.
pos: noun
gloss: A tiny glass flake formed during the manufacture of glass vials.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges.
pos: noun
examples: Tear it up, and put a fragment under the microscope, and, wonder of wonders! see the maze of geometric forms exhibited in the bones of the creature; for who can help regarding the spicules as bones, even though a sponge be invertebrate?
gloss: A needle-like mating structure found only in male nematodes.
pos: noun
gloss: A jet of matter ejected from the photosphere of the sun.
pos: noun
gloss: A small spike of flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: A unit of mass equal to 125 pounds.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: macrospicule
spicular
spiculiferous
spiculiform
spiculigenous
spiculite
Translations:
speedup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English speed updeverb.
English speedup
Deverbal from speed up.
Inflected forms:
form: speedups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: speed-up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]
gloss: The relationship between time taken and number of processors used.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An employer's demand for more output without more pay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There were, of course, those observers who argued that since in some industries 50 or 60 per cent of those employed were scientific, technical, and administrative staff, the employer would soon include them in his speedup plans.
For the mass of new workers who had not come out of a syndicalist or craft tradition, incentive pay and the speedup idea carried relatively little negative meaning.
The strike was over a speedup of the assembly line, which in the previous week had increased from 49 to 58 cars per hour. Out of this strike emerged the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM).
With constant speedup of the line and with the cold temperatures of the plant, one angry worker told me, “After ten years, people walk like they're sixty or seventy."
Derived words: Blum's speedup theorem
Translations:
madonna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: madonnas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Alternative letter-case form of Madonna.
pos: noun
examples: Glogau Stat.—Inns: Deutsches Haus; Westphal’s Hotel. A fortress of the 2nd rank on the l. bank of the Oder, 17,000 Inhab. The Dom upon an island dates from 1120, and contains a madonna by Cranach, sen., his masterpiece.
Giacomo Medica’s (1965) sample of the 697 most important Marian sanctuaries in Italy gives us some idea of the number of Italian madonnas in Italy as a whole.
When it has not whitened them, the church has attempted to assimilate dark or black madonnas; this is evident in the many Italian madonnas described as bruna.
The darkening effects of being buried, especially outdoors, sounds plausible in a few such cases, but if candle smoke is to account for all the other dark madonnas, as the Church asserts, why would not the entire statue have become black?
gloss: Alternative letter-case form of Madonna.
pos: noun
examples: Yet most of us will probably deny that this blissful woman is a sexual woman. We associate her with Virgin Mary, who conceived in an act of spiritual purity and not in carnal lust and desire. We regard her chastity as essential to her maternal rectitude. Thus we hardly recognize the madonna's subtle sensuality as sexual energy, especially not in an age where we measure sexuality in orgasmic potency.
For centuries, madonnas provided legitimate children and social respectability; whores, illegitimate pleasure.
[…] whether women’s liberation might be better achieved by rejecting the traditional dichotomization of women into good girls/bad girls, madonnas/whores, and hence refusing to organize one's sexual desire and pleasure in terms of the repressive and passive roles that are traditionally ascribed to female sexuality within dominant discourses (the so-called ‘agency’ model).
gloss: Alternative letter-case form of Madonna.
pos: noun
examples: […] hee lay laſt night in ſuch a madonnas chamber, tother night he lay in ſuch a Counteſſes couch, to night he lies in ſuch a Ladies cloſet, […]
A Hollywood madonna […] “Gentlemen: This is my Christmas madonna …”
Related words: madonna-like
madonnalike
Translations:
snuffer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snuff
English -er
English snuffer
From snuff + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: snuffers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle.
pos: noun
examples: If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.
gloss: A person who uses snuff (the tobacco product).
pos: noun
gloss: The common porpoise.
pos: noun
gloss: The participant in a snuff film who kills another (the snuffee).
pos: noun
Translations:
assfuck
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ass + fuck.
Compound parts: ass
fuck
Inflected forms:
form: assfucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arsefuck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: assfucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: assfucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: assfucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: assfucked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: arsefuck
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: more assfuck
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most assfuck
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: arsefuck
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Sodomy, anal sex, an act of anal intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
vulgar
examples: Too much wetness ruins a good assfuck. The friction is part of what gets me off.
And they go on, hanging around me in the pit, talking loudly about assfucks and who spits, who swallows, and how loud they can be when they come.
gloss: A jerk; an obnoxious person.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
vulgar
examples: He'd cruised in after work, the week's aggravating assfucks sloughed off...
Can't anyone take a nice warm and relaxing bubblebath without some assfuck ruining it?!
Eat my dust, assfuck!
gloss: An act of stunning betrayal.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
vulgar
gloss: To engage in anal intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
vulgar
examples: But she can't look away, either, when Barbara and Jack start to assfuck. To Agnes, it looks grotesque. The angle is wrong, like the angle of a broken limb.
gloss: To betray.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
vulgar
examples: "You boys tried to assfuck me," he said softly, menacingly, "...and it backfired."
We assfuck their minds.
gloss: Isolated and neglected, undesirable, or held in contempt.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
slang
vulgar
Related words: mindfuck
Translations:
ringbearer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ring + bearer.
Compound parts: ring
bearer
Inflected forms:
form: ringbearers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who carries a ring, especially a wedding ring as part of a wedding ceremony.
pos: noun
Translations:
rearview
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rear
English view
English rearview
From rear + view.
Inflected forms:
form: rearviews
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That provides a view from or to the rear.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Tesla is recalling roughly 27,000 Cybertrucks because of a rearview camera issue that delays the image being displayed on the dashboard, increasing the risk of a crash.
gloss: Synonym of rearview mirror.
pos: noun
examples: My reflection checks me out in the rearview. I'm... kind of beau... tiful!?
Bag of little yellow pills for thе nerves / But it makes it еven worse when the Xannys don't work / And he panic, ears ringing, when you call, he can't hear you / Every seven seconds, eyes back up in the rearview
Translations:
infinitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French infinité, from Latin infinitas (“unlimitedness”), from negative prefix in- (“not”), + finis (“end”), + noun of state suffix -tas.
Inflected forms:
form: infinitudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being infinite or having no limit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Euclid proved the infinitude of primes.
Translations:
thuggish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thug
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English thuggish
From thug + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more thuggish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thuggish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by thuggery; behaving in a violent or intimidating way; appearing to be violent or intimidating.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: Their thuggish manner made continuing negotiations very difficult.
We were Jews—and not only were we not inferior to the goyim who beat us at football, but the chances were that because we could not commit our hearts to victory in such a thuggish game, we were superior!
They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.
He said gardaí had responded professionally to “thuggish violence” in the area and those arrested would be “charged, named and dealt with relentlessly” by the criminal justice system.
It is there in the rabid ideology underpinning Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) thuggish assault on immigrants in Minneapolis.
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of the assassins known as thugs or thuggees (often capitalized in this sense).
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: […] beside the deceitfulness of the heart and the carnality common to all men, the deep ignorance of the heathen, the abjectness of their social condition, their vain but venerated traditions, their time-honored customs of profligacy, impelling to infanticide, parricide, Thuggish murders, and cannibalism—all conflict steadily with the holiest efforts to transform them into symmetrical Christians.
Occasionally you might have beheld us chasing up scores of Dorkings,—which had been our admiration for the twelvemonth, and massacreing them remorselessly for the public good: our turkeys and geese, too, were in continual jeopardy of their lives. But,—these Thuggish propensities notwithstanding, we took a paternal interest in our feathered family.
There are not wanting in this Christian land
The breast remorseless and the Thuggish hand,
Derived words: thuggishly
thuggishness
unthuggish
Translations:
thuggery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From thug + -ery.
Base: thug
Affixes: -ery
Inflected forms:
form: thuggeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The violent, criminal acts that are associated with thugs, and/or the fashion, manner of speaking, and demeanor associated with them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
psychographics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The use of demographics to obtain marketing data from people's attitudes, lifestyles etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
interspecies
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English species
English interspecies
From inter- + species.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Occurring or arising between species; interspecific.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In view of this biochemical diversity, the possibilities of interspecies hybridization in this genus are very interesting and worthy of attention.
“You're a publicist,” she said. “She's a celebrity. That's interspecies.”
Translations:
Scottie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Scott
English -ie
English Scottie
From Scott + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: Scotties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Scotty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Scottish terrier.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A Scottish person (sometimes as a nickname).
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: It's Scottie this, an' Scottie that, Whan ye gang o'er the border;
. . .and a bone-splintering hello from the Scottie!
On Christmas Eve the Germans shouted from their trenches, which are only 100 yards from ours, in these terms – A merry Christmas, Scottie Guardie. We are not going to fire to-morrow; we will have a holiday and a game of football.
Donated to the city by Auckland businessman J.M. Mennie, it was unveiled in 1921 by the then New Zealand Prime Minister, W.F. Massey, 'this big determined Ulsterman', who 'displayed in his speech a surprising knowledge of Burns, so much so that a man in the crowd called out “You're a regular Scottie”'.
Translations:
hypersexuality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.
Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder.
Proto-Italic *seksus
Latin sexus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sexuālis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
New Latin sexuālitāslbor.
English sexuality
English hypersexuality
From hyper- + sexuality.
Inflected forms:
form: hypersexualities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessive desire for sexual activity, especially when considered high enough to be clinically significant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Is promiscuity a cover for an underlying despair? Perhaps my own hypersexuality has served a narcissism I dare not face: a surface vanity (which must constantly be reinforced) concealing an inner doubt about my own importance as a human being.
For example, there are many reports of hypersexuality following traumatic brain injury to frontal regions. Although disinhibition is one common consequence of frontal lesions, not all frontal lesions will result in hypersexuality, […]
Translations:
Bernie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Bernese
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
▲
Scots -ieinflu.
English -ie
English Bernie
From Bernese + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: Bernies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Bernese mountain dog.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
protectionist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French protectionniste, equivalent to protection + -ist.
Base: protection
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: more protectionist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most protectionist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: protectionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to protectionism, or an advocate thereof.
pos: adj
examples: This is because most member countries still hold a very much protectionist stance when it comes to the service sector.
The "national security" grounds were gauzy at best; the 232 tariffs were classically protectionist.
While protectionist policies, with its tariffs on imports and wholesale rejection of globalism, are often justified on the grounds of supporting domestic industries, preserving jobs, and enhancing national security, they also carry significant downsides, particularly for the most economically vulnerable populations.
gloss: Someone who believes in protecting domestic producers by impeding or limiting the importation of foreign goods and services via actions taken by government.
pos: noun
examples: It also would cut deeply into the trans-Atlantic alliance at the worst possible time by giving anti-American, anti-capitalist nationalists and protectionists in Europe a platform to thrive. Anti-American sentiment will grow, and Europe risks a retreat to protectionism. Those of us who make the case for the trans-Atlantic alliance will have a much harder job.
Vance is now a key messenger for Trump’s economic agenda as the administration pursues sweeping new protectionists policies announced on what they deemed “Liberation Day.”
gloss: A linguistic purist.
pos: noun
Antonyms: nonprotectionist
liberal
neoliberal
free-trade
Related words: protectionism
Translations:
sloshing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sloshings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motion or action that sloshes.
pos: noun
Translations:
smudgy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From smudge (“blemish; dense smoke; to obscure by smearing; to stifle”) + -y. (The sense "rainy" is related to dialectal use of smudge to mean drizzling rain.)
Base: smudge
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: smudgier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: smudgiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: smudgey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Marked with smudges.
pos: adj
examples: As you know, an ordinary unhairy face like yours or mine simply gets a bit smudgy if it is not washed often enough, and there's nothing so awful about that. But a hairy face is a very different matter.
gloss: Like a thick smoke (such as is emitted by a smudge pot); thick and smoky or smokelike.
pos: adj
examples: Pierre lighted his pipe and immediately the air about him because heavy, not with the aromatic perfume of choice Havanna but with a smudgy fog that made John cough. The cough was genuine, but John emphasized it a little as a suggestion that the coarse odor was anything but welcome- without, however, any appreciable result.
[…] the black, smudgy fog billowing up before his eyes, blotting out the peculiar smile on the face of the white lady. It was only then that he could feel the cold claws of terror clutching at his throat and heart.
gloss: Rainy or drizzly.
pos: adj
examples: Smudgy weather greeted Torpedo Five who had to dodge cloud banks and rain squalls as they flew at altitudes between 3,000 and 4,000 feet toward Guadalcanal and Tulagi. Finally the large island of Guadalcanal loomed ahead. Soon, they[…]
[…] under overcast skies. "It's a smudgy day," Alex observes. Indeed, a light drizzle falls from clouds that look as though they've been rubbed out with a fat eraser.
"Smudgy day," she said. Allmen didn't understand. "It's raining from north, south, east, and west," she said. "Aha. And that's known as smudgy?" "By me it is."
gloss: Hot and humid or stuffy; sweltering.
pos: adj
examples: […] and the smudgy heat cast from the cavernous fireplace.
blawing weather[:] Hot close smudgy weather when flies 'blow' or 'strike' sheep very much
A smudgy heat spread a blanket over the city and laid there, unmoved for weeks.
Derived words: smudgily
smudginess
Translations:
smudged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Blurred as by being rubbed.
pos: adj
examples: a smudged chalk drawing
Translations:
origo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin orīgō. Doublet of origin.
Inflected forms:
form: origos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: origines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The reference point on which a deictic relationship is based.
pos: noun
Translations:
snoot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
theater
Etymology: From Scots snoot, snout (“snout”), from Middle English snowte, from Middle Dutch snute; ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Doublet of snout.
Inflected forms:
form: snoots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snoots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snooting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snooted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snooted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An elitist or snobbish person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The sidecars— sneer if you will, you purists and gastronomic snoots— at Perino's in Wilshire in Los Angeles.
At first, I had no idea you had money, and you didn't seem like a snoot. The place where you were renting was a dumpy place. When you turned out to have money, I was surprised.
In defense of low-grade teas, I must say they are very cheap, and I have a large box in my cupboard right next to the higher quality, more snoot-worthy varieties.
“Do you know any of Larry's other partners?” “Some.” “Do you know Mary Lou Goddard?” “Oh, that snoot.” “Snoot?” “Yes, Larry told me about her. He went out with her a couple of times and then she got possessive.”
gloss: A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism.
pos: noun
examples: There are lots of epithets for people like this—Grammar Nazis, Usage Nerds, Syntax Snobs, the Language Police. The term I was raised with is SNOOT.
gloss: A nose or snout.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
dialectal
slang
examples: And then he did something which must be unprecedented in jurisprudence. He leaped from his chair, ran over to the old man, and shaking his fist under his nose, roared: 'Listen, you! If you keep on with this stuff, I'll punch you one in the snoot!
gloss: Snout; especially of a dog ("doggo"), cat ("catto"), or snake ("snek").
pos: noun
tags: Internet
childish
humorous
gloss: A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.
pos: noun
examples: Snoots have traditionally been round in shape when attached to studio strobes, but with flash photography, they have taken on a more rectangular shape because the flash heads are rectangular.
gloss: To behave disdainfully toward someone.
pos: verb
gloss: To apply a snoot attachment to (a light).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Which might mean shaping it, gelling it, snooting it, barn dooring it, and putting it on a stand or a clamp. Maybe taking the dome diffuser off. Perhaps zooming it. Oh my. And you thought you were just taking a picture.
Related words: snootful
snooty
Derived words: droop snoot
snooter
Translations:
functionary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French fonctionnaire; by surface analysis, function + -ary.
Inflected forms:
form: functionaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is minimal or not required.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: bureaucrat; official; officer; administrator; apparatchik
Consciences are for politicians, Bernard! We are humble functionaries whose duty it is to implement the commands of our democratically elected representatives.
gloss: Such a person who is petty, pedantic, short-sighted, uncaring, or counterproductive; sometimes also with implication of being amoral or corrupt.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: bureaucrat, apparatchik; paper-pusher; bean counter
Translations:
misgiving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From misgive, from mis- + give, from Middle English give (“suggest, given”). Compare given and what gives.
Base: give
Affixes: mis-
Inflected forms:
form: misgivings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He could think of her being there, without a lurking misgiving that it would have been better if she had not come.
In the night, or the gloomy chambers of the day, fears and misgivings wax strong, but out in the sunlight there is, for a time, cessation even of the terror of death.
Having got its Act, the M.B.M. & M.J.R. apparently had misgivings about the route, in view of the very heavy engineering works that would be necessary, and on November 9, 1846, the company gave notice of a further bill for a deviated line, which was passed into law on July 22, 1847.
Zoe was so starving she had stolen a bag of her stepmother’s dreaded prawn cocktail crisps for her dinner. The rat must have been able to smell them on her fingers, and despite Zoe’s grave misgivings about the snack, which bore no relation to prawns or indeed cocktails, the rat didn’t seem to mind.
The history of cast iron in railway bridges is much more grimly chequered. Brunel's misgivings were proved prudent, tragically, in the 1879 failure of Thomas Bouch's Tay bridge (once a monument to cast iron, now a memorial to many lives lost).
Translations:
wakefield
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From wake + field.
Compound parts: wake
field
Inflected forms:
form: wakefields
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The electron density wave structure which immediately follows an intense laser beam or relativistic charged particle beam as it passes through a plasma; the electric field or potential associated with such a structure.
pos: noun
examples: Calculation of the plasma wakefields (driven electron plasma waves) generated by nonevolving drive laser pulses is straightforward.
Translations:
shortcake
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From short + cake.
Compound parts: short
cake
Inflected forms:
form: shortcakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dessert made with such a cake, typically having layers of cream and fruit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of shortbread
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
Derived words: shortcakey
strawberry shortcake
Translations:
bruiser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bruise
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 bruiser
From bruise + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bruisers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In contact sports, an athlete whose size, strength, and/or aggressiveness make it likely that they will cause athletes on the opposing team to suffer physical punishment.
pos: noun
gloss: A tall, strong, heavily built person, usually a man, especially one prone to physical violence; a strong and tough person.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
derogatory
examples: His "assistant" was a big bruiser named Pete, who, with his enormous shoulders and menacing scowl, was clearly present for the intimidation factor.
So there, my dear Bertie, was I, within a few hours of my entrance into this town, with my top-hat down to my ears, my highly professional frock-coat, and my kid gloves, fighting some low bruiser on a pedestal in one of the most public places, in the heart of a yelling and hostile mob! I ask you whether that was cruel luck or not?
While planning a recent move, I checked the pages of Majority Report, which lists women-owned and operated businesses and found a listing for "Truck You." […] Two women from Queens, and formerly of New Jersey GAA, Ulla and Mickey, came with their van and a successful move was accomplished without reliance on macho male bruisers.
gloss: A machine for bruising oats.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who enjoys arguing with others.
pos: noun
gloss: A professional boxer.
pos: noun
examples: Sometimes, when in the newspapers I happen upon descriptions of our modern bruisers and prizefighters, I wonder what chance the best of them would have had against him.
Derived words: lightning bruiser
Translations:
countrified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *komterosder.
Proto-Italic *komterād
Latin contrā
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Latin -āta
Vulgar Latin *(terra) contrāta
Old French contreebor.
Middle English contre
English country
English -fy
English countrify
English -ed
English countrified
From countrify + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more countrified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most countrified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Rural, rustic; unsophisticated.
pos: adj
examples: Although houses and factories appeared in great profusion in the 1930s, there still remain odd groups of cottages dating from an earlier and more countrified period.
There was this hot little countrified sistah who had caught my eye during the beginning of freshman year, but I just hadn't had a chance to work my way around to her yet.
Westbourne Park [station] is also countrified, with valanced canopies and fancy ironwork (which is painted a dingy yellow).
gloss: Having the characteristics of country music.
pos: adj
examples: Over the next couple of years, a few more countrified albums appeared, and to more singles—"Tarkio Road" (#55, 1971) and "Shake Off The Demons (#98, 1972)—won positions on the Hot 100.
Derived words: countrifiedness
uncountrified
Translations:
angiogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἄγγος (ángos)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?
Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon)
Ancient Greek -εῖον (-eîon)
Ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον (angeîon)lbor.
English angio-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor.
French -gènebor.
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -genic
English angiogenic
From angio- + -genic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to angiogenesis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
Translations:
Christer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Christ
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 Christer
From Christ + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: Christers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Christian who publicly displays his or her religion.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: The village people called his father 'Righteous Christer,' which shows that he too must have been 'stiff as a tree' in following what he knew to be right.
Translations:
futhark
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the first six letters of the runic alphabet, ᚠ (“f”), ᚢ (“u”), ᚦ (“þ”), ᚨ (“a”), ᚱ (“r”), ᚲ (“k”).
Inflected forms:
form: futharks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: futharc
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Futharc
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Futhark
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fuþark
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Fuþark
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Germanic runic alphabet; especially specifically the Elder or Younger futhark alphabet (of Scandinavia and the European mainland), as contrasted with the Anglo-Saxon futhorc.
pos: noun
Translations:
zebrafish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From zebra + fish.
Compound parts: zebra
fish
Inflected forms:
form: zebrafishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zebrafish
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small striped fish of species Danio rerio, originally from India but now common as an aquarium fish and as a subject of genetic experiments.
pos: noun
examples: Use of the GAL4-UAS technique for targeted gene expression in the zebrafish.
gloss: A member of certain species of Percina (logperch).
pos: noun
gloss: Certain venomous lionfish, of genus Pterois.
pos: noun
Translations:
integrin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: integrins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many heterodimeric transmembrane proteins that function as receptors in communication between cells.
pos: noun
Translations:
nimbleness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English nymmylnes; equivalent to nimble + -ness.
Base: nimble
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: nimblenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being nimble.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Therfoꝛe thus ſaieth the holy one of Iſrael: In as moch as ye haue caſt of youre bewtie, and confoꝛted youre ſelues with power and nymbleneſſe, and put youre confidence therin: therfoꝛe ſhal ye haue this myſchefe agayne foꝛ youre deſtruction and fall, like as an hie wall, that falleth becauſe of ſome rift (oꝛ blaſt,) whoſe bꝛeakinge cometh ſodenly.
'Tis better that the Enemie ſeeke vs,
So ſhall he waſte his meanes, weary his Souldiers,
Doing himſelfe offence, whil'ſt we lying ſtill,
Are full of reſt, defence, and nimbleneſſe.
The three little men came slily up to him, and thought by their nimbleness to get back the cap, but he held his prize fast, and they saw clearly that nothing was to be done in this way with him, for in size and strength John was a giant in comparison of these little fellows, who hardly came up to his knee.
Antonyms: sluggishness
Translations:
Jezebel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אִיזֶבֶל ('izével).
Inflected forms:
form: Jezebels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman who is evil, scheming, shameless, or immoral.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: She’s an absolute Jezebel!
I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man. I called her a carrot-topped Jezebel whom I was thankful to have got out of my hair. […] “The core of the matter is,” I said, twiddling the wheel to avoid a passing hen, “that in Roberta Wickham we are dealing with a girl of high and haughty spirit. […] And girls of high and haughty spirit need kidding along. This cannot be done by calling them carrot-topped Jezebels.”
Red lips, hair, and fingernails
I hear you're a mean old Jezebel
gloss: Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Delias.
pos: noun
Translations:
playable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *plehan
Old English pleġan
Proto-West Germanic *plegō
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-West Germanic *-ōn
Proto-West Germanic *plegōn
Old English plegian
Middle English pleyen
Proto-West Germanic *plegō
Old English plega
Middle English pleye
English play
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English playable
From play + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: playables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be played.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Not all compact discs are playable in car stereos.
That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list.
gloss: Of a move, giving a reasonable result; able to be played without losing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Is MAGICS a playable word in Scrabble?
gloss: Of a game, able to be played and enjoyed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some of the most playable games tend to be those that've been around the longest: the Breakout/Arkanoid/Batty imitators for instance, or, as here, the Asteroids clones.
gloss: A character in a game who may be chosen as the player character.
pos: noun
Related words: playability
Derived words: nonplayable
unplayable
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: xugable
lang: Russian
word: играбельный
roman: igrabelʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: увлекательный
roman: uvlekatelʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: интересный
roman: interesnyj
flaying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flayings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is flayed.
pos: noun
Translations:
soppy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sop + y. In sense 2, unrelated etymologically to sappy (“excessively emotional”).
Base: sop
Inflected forms:
form: soppier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: soppiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very wet; sodden, soaked.
pos: adj
examples: Yarmouth […] looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.
'Goodness me!' said I to myself, 'whatever will become of sister's white satin shoes, if she has to walk about on soppy grass after such rain as this?'
gloss: Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
informal
examples: Listen, those men will only turn soppy and puppy-dog eyed as soon as your turn to leave.
"[…] It's unfortunate, if I happen to look like what pleased some soppy old Greek sculptor, but I assure you that if it weren't for my face I'd be a quiet nun in the convent without"—then she broke into a run and her raised voice floated back to him as he followed—"my precious babies, which I must go back and see."
Derived words: soppily
soppiness
unsoppy
Translations:
concurrently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English concurrent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English concurrently
From concurrent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a concurrent manner; at the same time.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: For the next four years Mr. Johnson continued building 2-4-0 express passenger engines, thus continuing the Kirtley practice, but from 1882 onwards he built all his express engines with the 4-4-0 or the 4-2-2 wheel arrangement, the two types being put in service concurrently between the years of 1887 and 1900.
Concurrently with the St. Pancras-Bedford service, diesel trains have now taken over that between Kentish Town and Barking, on an even-interval basis at half-hourly intervals.
In many instances, the military was quite unable to distinguish right away between the Red Guard and Revolutionary organizations led by Maoist activists and those organized by Party officials whom Mao wished to topple, since both sides claimed to be dedicated to Mao’s policy. Furthermore, many military commanders were concurrently local administrators such as those in Tibet and Hsinchiang.
Translations:
blithely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English blythely, blyþely, bliþeliche, from Old English blīþelīċe (“gladly, blithely”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]; compare Dutch blijdelijk. By surface analysis, blithe + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more blithely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most blithely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: blythely
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Without care, concern, or consideration.
pos: adv
examples: As the bombs fell on the city, the woman blithely continued with her chores.
[…] and now was hardly the time, as Stephen pointed out, to be worried about cleaning up his act, and eliminating the chemical additives and other pollutants that we’re all blithely or not so blithely feasting on, blithely since we’re healthy, healthy as we can be; so far, Ira said.
The episode also opens with an inspired bit of business for Homer, who blithely refuses to acquiesce to an elderly neighbor’s utterly reasonable request that he help make the process of selling her house easier by wearing pants when he gallivants about in front of windows, throw out his impressive collection of rotting Jack-O-Lanterns from previous Halloweens and take out his garbage, as it’s attracting wildlife (cue moose and Northern Exposure theme song).
So I carried on, blithely ignorant. And by the time I saw the stats, there was a 100% chance I’d got it.
gloss: In a joyful, carefree manner.
pos: adv
gloss: In a kind manner.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
Related words: blithe
blitheful
blithefully
blithefulness
blithen
blitheness
blithesome
Translations:
voluntarist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English voluntary
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English voluntarist
From voluntary + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: voluntarists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who endorses voluntarism.
pos: noun
Translations:
zhang
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 丈 (zhàng).
Inflected forms:
form: zhangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Chinese unit of length, 10 Chinese feet or ¹/₁₅₀ Chinese mile.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
McIntosh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after John McIntosh of Ontario, Canada, who discovered the original single tree in 1796.
Inflected forms:
form: McIntoshes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cultivar of apple whose fruit has red and green skin, tart flavor and white flesh that ripens in late September.
pos: noun
gloss: A cultivar of apple whose fruit has red and green skin, tart flavor and white flesh that ripens in late September.
pos: noun
Synonyms: McIntosh Red
Mac
McIntosh apple
McIntosh apple tree
McIntosh tree
Translations:
lang: French
word: McIntosh
lang: Georgian
word: მაკინტოში
roman: maḳinṭoši
lang: German
word: McIntosh
lang: Italian
word: McIntosh
lang: Portuguese
word: McIntosh
lang: Spanish
word: McIntosh
mang
Part of speech: prep
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mang, mangis, imang, emang, variants of Middle English on mang, in mange, from Old English on ġemang. More at among.
Inflected forms:
form: mangs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: manging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: manged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: manged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Amid, amongst, among.
pos: prep
tags: Devon
gloss: To mix.
pos: verb
tags: Devon
examples: It's all manged up together.
Hagegy Bess; wi' zich, I reckon,
Ha now delight'h vor mang.
Translations:
spearman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spear
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English spearman
From spear + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: spearmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who uses a spear; a soldier or warrior who fights with a spear; a person who hunts with a spear.
pos: noun
examples: The second Adigar is only entitled to twenty-four spearmen and fifteen whipcrackers.
He spoke : the brawny spearman let his cheek Bulge with the unswallow'd piece, and turning stared;
All around here the spearmen would hide, armed with those terrible shovel-balded spears that will kill a bullock at seventy yards.
Then an old spearman will speak while they are drinking[.]
Translations:
pugilism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin pugil (“fist”) + -ism, related to pugnus (“fist”), from Proto-Indo-European roots. Compare contemporary pugilist (“boxer”), 1790.
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: pugilisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fighting with fists.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations: