yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
louis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
Etymology: Borrowed from French louis, from Louis, the name of the French kings who first issued these coins and whose images appeared on their obverses.
Inflected forms:
form: louis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: louises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any gold or silver coin issued by the French kings from Louis XIII to Louis XVI and bearing their image on the obverse side, particularly the gold louis d'ors, originally a French form of the Spanish doubloon but varying in value between 10 and 24 livres.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The louis d'or constitutionnel, a 24-livre gold coin issued by the First French Republic.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The franc germinal or napoleon, a similar gold coin issued by Napoleon and bearing his image on the obverse, worth 20 francs.
pos: noun
tags: historical
informal
Synonyms: Louis
lew
Translations:
poon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare Tamil புன்னை (puṉṉai), Malayalam പുന്ന (punna), names for Calophyllum inophyllum. Doublet of punnai.
Inflected forms:
form: poons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, yielding a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
debone
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English bone
English debone
From de- + bone.
Inflected forms:
form: debones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deboning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deboned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deboned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove the bones from.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I am deboning a fish.
Down it went on the counter, for patient bone removal that would last him a whole day. Frank had done an awful lot of deboning in his life
Translations:
vincent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Latin verb vincō. It could be either the stem of the present active participle vincēns (“the conquering man”) or the third-person plural future active indicative meaning ‘they will conquer’.
Inflected forms:
form: vincents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The victim or dupe in a betting game, especially bowls.
pos: noun
tags: historical
slang
examples: If the vincent could actually be persuaded to play a game, the professionals always won in the end, either because of their superior skill or because of such stratagems as those described by Greene […]
Translations:
tarsus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: Etymology tree
New Latin tarsusbor.
English tarsus
Borrowed from New Latin tarsus.
Inflected forms:
form: tarsi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part between the main part of the hindlimb and the metatarsus in terrestrial vertebrates.
pos: noun
gloss: The part between the main part of the hindlimb and the metatarsus in terrestrial vertebrates.
pos: noun
examples: On the ledge, the guillemots shuffle awkwardly about on their tarsi, the long bone connecting the ‘ankle’ to the feet.
gloss: The part between the main part of the hindlimb and the metatarsus in terrestrial vertebrates.
pos: noun
gloss: A plate of dense connective tissue found in each eyelid, attached to either the superior tarsal muscle (in the upper eyelid) or inferior tarsal muscle (lower eyelid), which aid with sympathetic control.
pos: noun
Related words: acrotarsium
tarsometatarsus
Derived words: apicotarsus
basitarsus
distitarsus
epitarsus
foretarsus
hypotarsus
mesotarsus
metatarsus
pretarsus
protarsus
tarsal
tarsectomy
tarsused
telotarsus
tibiotarsus
Translations:
lang: Aleut
word: kitax̂
lang: Arabic
word: رُصُغ
roman: ruṣuḡ
lang: Bulgarian
word: пищял
roman: pištjal
lang: Catalan
word: tars
lang: Czech
word: zánártí
lang: Finnish
word: nilkka
lang: Finnish
word: kinttu
lang: French
word: tarse
lang: German
word: Fußwurzel
lang: German
word: Tarsus
lang: Hungarian
word: lábtő
lang: Polish
word: stęp
lang: Portuguese
word: tarso
lang: Russian
word: предплюсна́
roman: predpljusná
lang: Slovak
word: priehlavok
scot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English scot, scott, from Old English scot, scott, sċeot, ġescot (“contribution; payment; tax; fine”), from Old Norse skot, from Proto-Germanic *skutą (“that which is thrown or cast; projectile; missile”), related to English shoot. Later influenced by Old French escot (Modern écot), itself of Germanic origin. Doublet of shot.
Inflected forms:
form: scots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
Translations:
tarsal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: From tarsus + -al, cognate to New Latin tarsālis.
Base: tarsus
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the tarsus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Being or relating to plates of dense connective tissue that serve to stiffen the eyelids.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: basitarsal
foretarsal
metatarsal
protarsal
tarsometatarsal
Derived words: carpotarsal
craniocarpotarsal
crurotarsal
extratarsal
infratarsal
intertarsal
intratarsal
mediotarsal
mesotarsal
midtarsal
posttarsal
pretarsal
retrotarsal
spondylocarpotarsal
superior tarsal
superior tarsal muscle
supratarsal
talotarsal
tarsal bone
tarsal gland
tarsally
tarsal muscle
tarsal tunnel syndrome
tarsoconjunctival
tarso-
tars-
tarsotarsal
tibiotarsal
Translations:
bruce
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the man's name Bruce.
Inflected forms:
form: bruces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man.
pos: noun
tags: Australian
slang
examples: See Thesaurus:man
Translations:
juan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Mandarin 卷.
Inflected forms:
form: juans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A scroll of a traditional Chinese book, often (but not necessarily) corresponding to a single chapter or fascicle.
pos: noun
Translations:
hellish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-yo- /*ḱol-yeh₂-der.?
Proto-Germanic *haljō
Proto-West Germanic *hallju
Old English hell
Middle English helle
English hell
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English hellish
From hell + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more hellish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hellish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: infernal, related or similar to hell.
pos: adj
examples: Fauſtus is gone, regard his helliſh fall, / Whoſe fiendful fortune may exhort the wiſe, / Onely to wonder at vnlawful things, […]
gloss: causing great pain, discomfort or distress.
pos: adj
tags: excessive
examples: I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.
Related words: hell
Derived words: hellishly
hellishness
unhellish
Translations:
scrummy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of scrumptious + yummy.
Compound parts: scrumptious
yummy
Inflected forms:
form: scrummier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: scrummiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Delicious.
pos: adj
tags: UK
childish
colloquial
examples: Of course one did get some scrummy things to eat abroad, that cook did not, somehow, produce at home; and the people looked different […]
There's an all day menu, with lots of fish dishes such as fish soup, tuna, and monkfish. Pudding might include a scrummy rosemary panacotta.
After mopping up the last bits with my scrummy nan breads we settled down to watch the DVD of "The Two Towers" from "Lord of the Rings" […]
Translations:
jamaica
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish jamaicabor.
English jamaica
Borrowed from Spanish jamaica.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: roselle
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
buteo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name Buteo, from Latin būteō.
Inflected forms:
form: buteos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo.
pos: noun
examples: In flight, it has the broad-winged, wide-tailed look of the buteos, the soaring hawks that are built like small eagles.
Translations:
inundate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin inundātus, the perfect passive participle of inundō (“to flood, overflow”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- + undō (“to overflow, wave”), from unda (“wave”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: inundates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inundating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inundated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inundated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
pos: verb
examples: The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.
gloss: To overwhelm.
pos: verb
examples: The agency was inundated with phone calls.
I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.
That books are pouring off the world’s presses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades.
Synonyms: swamp
Related words: inundation
inundator
undulate
Translations:
rummy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Unknown, with much speculation. Perhaps related to rum via poker slang, or ultimately from German Ruhm.
Inflected forms:
form: rummies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rummier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rummiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Resembling or tasting of rum.
pos: adj
examples: a rummy flavour
gloss: Peculiar; odd.
pos: adj
tags: UK
colloquial
dated
examples: “You say rummy things and you do rummy things. What I mean to say is, you're impulsive.”
Derived words: rummily
rumminess
rummy nose
rummy-nose tetra
Translations:
uncia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin uncia (“various Roman units”). Doublet of ounce, inch, onça, onza, oka, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.
Inflected forms:
form: uncias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: unciae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The Roman ounce, 1/12 of a Roman pound.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The Roman inch, 1/12 of a Roman foot.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A bronze coin minted by the Roman Republic, 1/12 of an as.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A Roman unit of land area, 1/12 of a jugerum.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Synonym of ounce, the English and American avoirdupois unit of mass.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of twelfth.
pos: noun
gloss: A numerical coefficient in a binomial.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: nonuncium
teruncius
Derived words: semuncia
uncial
Translations:
carelessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-der.
Proto-Germanic *karō
Proto-West Germanic *karu
Old English caru
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Old English carlēas
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Old English carlēasnes
Middle English *carelesnes
English carelessness
From Middle English *carelesnes, *carlesnesse, from Old English carlēasnes (“freedom from care, security, carelessness”), equivalent to careless + -ness.
Base: careless
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: carelessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lack of care; the state or quality of being careless.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This accident was caused by carelessness.
There were, however, 34 deaths among passengers in movement accidents, due mainly to misadventure and carelessness when entering and leaving trains in motion, falling off platforms and out of carriages, and opening and closing carriage doors.
Antonyms: carefulness
Translations:
sempervivum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: sempervivums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Sempervivum of succulent plants, the houseleeks or liveforevers.
pos: noun
examples: My favorite of the moment: a sleeping man in a long cattle trough, planted with thousands of a Sedum album called Red Ice, now turning ruby red in the cold, with sempervivum eyes on a head-size volcanic rock, and two farmer-like feet made of same.
Translations:
floral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French floral, from Latin flōrālis, from flōs (“flower”).
Inflected forms:
form: more floral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most floral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: florals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.
pos: adj
examples: floral arrangement
floral tribute
gloss: Portraying flowers, especially in a stylized way.
pos: adj
examples: floral motif
Really, I like the floral pattern on this Chinese vase.
gloss: A design involving flowers
pos: noun
examples: FUNKY, bold and bright, many new wallpapers offer a modern twist on fussy old damasks and florals.
gloss: A perfume redolent of flowers
pos: noun
Related words: flora
florate
Derived words: bifloral
extrafloral
floral clock
floral envelope
floral formula
florality
floralize
floral larceny
florally
floralness
floralturbation
floral white
interfloral
intrafloral
labiatifloral
macrofloral
microfloral
monofloral
multifloral
mycofloral
nonfloral
palaeofloral
paleofloral
palynofloral
polyfloral
prefloral
subfloral
trifloral
unfloral
unifloral
Translations:
peninsular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin paenīnsulāris. By surface analysis, peninsula + -ar. In the historical sense borrowed from Spanish peninsular.
Inflected forms:
form: more peninsular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most peninsular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, resembling, or connected with a peninsula or peninsulas.
pos: adj
examples: The lakeside cottage was on a peninsular spit of land.
gloss: Exhibiting a narrow provincialism; parochial.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: insular
Derived words: circumpeninsular
midpeninsular
nonpeninsular
peninsularism
peninsularly
peninsular Spanish
transpeninsular penis
Translations:
satirical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English satire
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English satirical
From satire + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more satirical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most satirical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or connected with satire.
pos: adj
examples: Spitting Image was a famous satirical television program.
Given his remarks in The English People about the dangers of Standard English, and the fact that the satirical Newspeak of Nineteen Eighty-Four is an engineered language[…]
Translations:
spacy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin spatiumbor.
Old French espace
Anglo-Norman spacebor.
Middle English space
English space
English -y
English spacy
From space + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: spacier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: spaciest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spacey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: spaced-out
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
gloss: eccentric
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
gloss: spacious; having much space
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: This car is very spacy.
gloss: of, related to or connected with the extraterrestrial
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: His latest CD sounds very spacy.
Derived words: spaciness
Translations:
cuneiform
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
New Latin cuneus
Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.?
New Latin fōrma
New Latin -fōrmis
New Latin cuneifōrmisbor.
French cunéiformebor.
▲
New Latin cuneifōrmisbor.
English cuneiform
From French cunéiforme or New Latin cuneifōrmis, from Classical Latin cuneus (“wedge”) + fōrma.
Inflected forms:
form: cuniform
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: cuneiforms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cuniform
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: About midway across the larger log a cuneiform notch or cut about six inches deep was made.
The cuneiform tendon is always sharply defined when the hock is flexed by the action of the muscle.
The cuneiform leaf is not the characteristic heart-shaped early form (O. and P., p. 241).
gloss: Written in the cuneiform writing system.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There, too, it was originally the vulgar script in contrast with the official cuneiform script employed for all official documents, compacts, etc.
The text is inscribed on a clay tablet of a very unusual format. The only other known mathematical cuneiform text on a clay tablet of a similar format is also the only previously known Kassite (and therefore post-Old-Babylonian) mathematical cuneiform text.
gloss: An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
pos: noun
gloss: A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
pos: noun
Synonyms: cuneal
cuneiform bone
precuneiform
wedgelike
wedge-shaped
wedgy
wedge-writing
Related words: Akkadian
Accadian
Old Persian
Ugaritic
Derived words: ectocuneiform
entocuneiform
intercuneiform
mesocuneiform
noncuneiform
protocuneiform
cuneiformist
Translations:
afar
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English afer, equivalent to a- (“for, on, or of”) + far.
Base: far
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At, to, or from a great distance; far away.
pos: adv
examples: He was seen from afar.
He loved her from afar.
Translations:
brazil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: brazils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brasil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Brazil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: A small Quantity of Saffron will Tinct more then a very great Quantity of Brasil.
gloss: The hard, brown wood of a certain species of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally sappan (Biancaea sappan), of the East Indies, and later brazilwood, Paubrasilia echinata.
pos: noun
examples: The Prouince Brasilia tooke his name of the woode called Brasill.
Thou know'st my brittle temper's prone to break.
Are my bones brazil or my flesh of oak?
[P]ernambucco – the finest brasil from Brazil, so strong it almost resembles iron – became the favoured material for good bows.
gloss: A Brazil nut.
pos: noun
examples: I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl.
gloss: A seam of coal containing iron pyrites
pos: noun
Derived words: hard as brazil
Translations:
holland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: After Holland, where it originally came from. From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”).
Inflected forms:
form: hollands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: I am convinced that many if not all the Quality in France wore shirts of the finest holand, for tho' I never saw of them strip I have seen what is an equivalent proof, I have seen on the Bulwarks of Paris above twenty entire shirts hanging to dry that the best Gentlemen in England might wear without disparagement.
His apartments were blank. Brown hollands covered his library-table
Translations:
japan
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Japan, due to this varnishing process being an imitation of East Asian processes. Sense “to ordain” in reference to the black clothes worn by the clergy.
Inflected forms:
form: japans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: japans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: japanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: japanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: japanned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hard black enamel varnish containing asphalt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My own apartment, however, I was allowed to enter; and very pretty, I must say, it is. It is hung with Indian-silk, where the brightest of birds, and the gayest of flowers, disport themselves on a white ground. The screens and dressing-table are of black japan, while the mirror is set in exquisite silver filigree work, of which material are also the boxes of my toilette.
gloss: Lacquerware.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To varnish (something) with japan.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Among other monstrosities in this lumber room was a largeish black japanned box, excellently and ingeniously made some sixty or seventy years ago, and fitted with every imaginable object.
A Zoetrope in the same sale fetched 26 guineas. The revolving drum, 12 inches in diameter, was black japanned, on a turned wooden base, and there were many coloured strips.
gloss: To ordain (someone).
pos: verb
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
transitive
examples: Jack, hearing that I was in this part of the world, sent me a very hearty letter, informing me, that he had been double-japanned (as he called it) about a year ago, and was the present incumbent of — […]
Derived words: japannery
japanware
japanner
rejapan
unjapanned
Translations:
bolivia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Inflected forms:
form: bolivias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A card game similar to rummy and canasta.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A meld of seven wild cards in said card game.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
guinea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Guinea, the early modern name for West Africa, the coins originally being made of gold from the region, mostly from the 'Gold Coast' (modern Ghana) and used for African trade, and the guinea fowl being found there.
Its use as an ethnic slur against Italians may be due to their darker complexion compared to people of Anglo-American descent.
Inflected forms:
form: guineas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
examples: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...
However, since there are 488 pages in all for a bargain price of a guinea one must not be too carping.
gloss: Synonym of guinea fowl.
pos: noun
examples: The guineas peeped complainingly, the goslings waddled into all the puddles and came back to chill my skin.
gloss: A person of Italian descent.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
ethnic
slang
slur
examples: If I’m to tell the whole truth—and why not? I sure have the time!—I’ll have to start by saying I was born Richard Pinzetti, in New York’s Little Italy. My father was an Old World guinea.
Derived words: gn.
guinea-fowl
guinea grains
guinea hen weed
guinea keet
guinea-pig
guinea pig
guinea pig director
guinea piglet
guinea squash
guinea stand
guinea tee
guinea-worm
guinea worm
helmeted guinea fowl
long-eared guinea pig
Translations:
mali
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi माली (mālī, “gardener”), from Sanskrit माली (mālī, “wreath-maker, garland-maker; florist; gardener”), मालिन् (mālin, “florist; gardener”), from माला (mālā, “wreath, garland; chaplet, crown”).
Inflected forms:
form: malis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mallee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: molly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: malley
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener.
pos: noun
tags: India
South-Asia
examples: [H]ence the slow progress hitherto made in the cultivation of such produce of the garden as is generally held in estimation by the European portion of the community, left as it generally is, to the simple Hindoo mallee (or gardener,) it is not to be wondered at, that our bazars want what are deemed the more delicate articles of vegetable production for the table; […]
Prizes were awarded to ten other mallees for best samples of vegetables, fruits and flowers, and last though not least we have to note, that a prize of two rupees was awarded to the mallee of Robert Fulton, Esq., of Sultangunge, for a remarkably fine bunch of grapes, clearly showing that either the soil of Mr. Fulton's garden, the climate of Sultangunge, or the skill of that gentleman's gardener, are highly favorable to the growth, and bringing to maturity of this delicious fruit.
I sent down dhobies, sweepers, cooks, and mallees, last to dig trenches for burying the dead, when burning was not possible.
He found, as he expected, that the poor girl was crying. And, as always, an Indian close outside the window, a mali in this case, picking up sounds.
A nearly naked mali, watering-can in hand, was moving in the jungle of flowers like some large nectar-sucking bird.
The grounds of the estates were extensive enough to provide each mansion with a surrounding park, and these were, if anything, even more varied in design than the houses they enclosed – for the malis who tended the gardens, no less than the owners themselves, vied to outdo each other in the fancifulness of their plantings, creating here a little patch of topiary and there an avenue of trees, trimmed in the French fashion; […]
Translations:
morocco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the country name of Morocco, from which this leather was originally imported. Compare maroquin.
Inflected forms:
form: moroccos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The purple morocco cases accompanying the latter contained a handsome set of gold ornaments. Louisa was deeply gratified, even more on Charles's account than on her own; it was such injustice on the part of her family to treat him with such insolence as Lady Anne and Lady Rotheles displayed.
Piers put the letter in an envelope and slipped it into a green morocco-covered volume on the window seat – his sister's diary.
gloss: A sheepskin leather in imitation of this.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A very strong ale, anciently brewed in Cumberland.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: French morocco
Levant morocco
moroccoed
Persian morocco
Translations:
niger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name of the Niger River, from Latin Nigris. See further etymology at Niger.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An Ethiopian herb, Guizotia abyssinica, grown for its seed and edible oil.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
cologne
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ellipsis of eau de Cologne (French eau de Cologne), the name given to the original product in 1709. The success of the original Eau de Cologne inspired many imitators and it has become a genericized trademark. See Cologne.
Inflected forms:
form: colognes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colognes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cologning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cologned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cologned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of perfume consisting of 2–5% essential oils, 70–90% alcohol and water.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: You stink of too much cologne.
The perfume market has always been a two-tiered one, with a relatively small number of buyers of small bottles of real perfume and eau de parfum that cost large amounts of money, and a larger number of buyers of somewhat larger bottles of cologne and eau de toilette that are considerably more affordable but not always cheap.
He wore some aftershave or cologne that gave him a heavy, nasty, sweet scent.
gloss: Any of a family of fresh, citrus-based fragrances distilled using extracts from citrus, floral, and woody ingredients, said to have been developed in the early 18th century in Cologne, Germany.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A fragrance typically worn by a man as opposed to a woman, regardless of its concentration.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
usually
gloss: To scent with cologne.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: eau de Cologne
Derived words: cologned
Translations:
tonga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi टाँगा (ṭāṅgā).
Inflected forms:
form: tongas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tanga
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
pos: noun
tags: India
examples: Coming up along the Cart-Road a tonga passed me, and my pony, tired with standing so long, set off at a canter.
When his tyre went flat, he leapt off and shouted for a tonga.
The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.
Translations:
mo
Part of speech: num
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From mil, by analogy with do and gro.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The cardinal number occurring after el gro el do el (↋↋↋) and before mo one (1001) in a duodecimal system. Written 1000, decimal value 1728.
pos: num
Translations:
scaphoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin scaphoides, from Ancient Greek σκᾰφοειδής (skăphoeidḗs, “like a bowl, hollow”), from σκᾰ́φη (skắphē, “boat, trough, bowl”).
Inflected forms:
form: more scaphoid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scaphoid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: scaphoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Shaped like a boat.
pos: adj
gloss: Carpal navicular bone.
pos: noun
Translations:
mastermind
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From master + mind.
Compound parts: master
mind
Inflected forms:
form: masterminds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: masterminds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: masterminding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: masterminded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: masterminded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person with an extraordinary intellect or skill that is markedly superior to their peers.
pos: noun
examples: At long intervals some master-minds appeared, looking upon each advance in practical science as a retro-gradation in the true utility.
His first outside hire wasn't an electronics whiz or a mechanical mastermind, but a young industrial designer, a creature hitherto unknown at DEKA.
gloss: A person responsible for the highest level of planning and execution of a major operation.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: The first was with none other than Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM), mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
Prosecutors later suspected that Wang, chairman of Ciji Temple in Tainan's Syuejia District, was the mastermind behind the shootings, but the court acquitted him of the charge because of insufficient evidence.
gloss: To act in the role of mastermind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It would later be revealed that the corporation contributed over a quarter of a million dollars to the effort—a whopping 93 percent of the total coffer—and hired a team of media and political experts to mastermind it.
Travelling over the route today, it is well to remember the ongoing role of the Friends of the S&C and the work of the late Ron Cotton. He masterminded its revival, thereby reversing the role he had been given by BR to bring about its closure.
Derived words: masterminder
mastermindful
Translations:
vP
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: vPs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A phrase headed by little v.
pos: noun
examples: Wherever an object fails to undergo EPP-driven raising into the v'''P-domain, it remains VP-internal. In the context of the phase-based Probe/Goal/Agree system of Chomsky (2000 onwards) and, in particular, (the strict version of) the Phase Impenetrability Condition (PIC), material located in the VP-domain is subject to Spellout upon completion of the v'''P phase.
As discussed in Deal 2013, a single vP may contain only one accusative-marked DP, and it is always the second-highest DP that is marked in this way.
Translations:
bowlful
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bowl + -ful.
Base: bowl
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: bowlfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bowlsful
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bowl full
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bowl-ful
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: bowl-full
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: bowlfull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: The amount that a bowl will hold.
pos: noun
Translations:
demy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * (scholarship): From Latin demi-socii (“half-fellows”); see socius.
Inflected forms:
form: demies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: 1781, Samuel Johnson, Addison, Lives of the Poets, 1840, Arthur Murphy (editor), The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 2, page 132,
[…] by whose recommendations he was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called scholars, young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships; […]
gloss: Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: William Lily was admitted as a dumy to Magdalen College, Oxford, by November 1486, at the age of seventeen
Derived words: double demy
junior demy
music demy
quad demy
senior demy
Translations:
abridged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English abridge
English -ed
English abridged
From abridge + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more abridged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most abridged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cut or shortened, especially of a literary work.
pos: adj
examples: The novel was abridged by the author to make the audio recording a more manageable length.
How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!
CHEMINS DE FER. Edited by Jean Herbert. Elsevier Publishing Co. [...] 30s. [...] This invaluable paper-back glossary of railway terms in six languages, French, German, English, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, is an abridged edition of the Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer Lexique General des Termes Ferroviaires; [...].
Translations:
daring
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more daring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most daring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: darings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks; overbold.
pos: adj
examples: “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”
gloss: Courageous or showing bravery; doughty.
pos: adj
examples: […]By this scimitar,
That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince
That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,
I would outstare the sternest eyes that look,
Outbrave the heart most daring on earth,
Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,
To win thee, lady. […]
gloss: Racy; sexually provocative.
pos: adj
examples: Just what I wanted, seeing my mom in a daring bikini—or worse yet, my being in one. I had the perfect drawer I could bury it in.
gloss: Boldness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: daredevil
dareful
darer
daresay
Derived words: daringly
daringness
fortune favors the daring
outdaring
undaring
Translations:
courageous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English corajous, from Old French corageus, from corage + -eus.
Inflected forms:
form: more courageous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most courageous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, displaying or possessing courage.
pos: adj
examples: the most courageous person I have ever met
In 1979, following Jimmy Carter’s unexpected and unreasonable decision to transfer diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, the Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act to preserve our relationship with this courageous nation. We believed that it was vital for our allies and for those who were not our allies to know that the United States would not abandon its friends.
gloss: Of an action, that requires courage.
pos: adj
examples: a courageous deed
Derived words: courageously
courageousness
noncourageous
overcourageous
uncourageous
Translations:
cornmeal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From corn + meal.
Compound parts: corn
meal
Inflected forms:
form: cornmeals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dried corn (maize) milled (ground) to a meal, especially a coarse one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She made a kind of polenta from cornmeal and chicken broth, with some cheese sprinkled on top.
gloss: Any cereal grain meal or flour.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
especially
uncountable
Derived words: cornmealy
Translations:
Nokia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Nokias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A phone produced by the Nokia company.
pos: noun
examples: Mac turned to the bed and pulled a handful of Nokias from the bag. 'We need those charged,' said Mac as he headed off to find the communal shower block.
Translations:
palmas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Clapping of the hands.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] she performed in an ensemble that included one uncle (José Carbonell) on guitar, and another (Antonio Carbonell) accompanying her with palmas, or handclapping.
Translations:
gg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
gaming
Inflected forms:
form: GG
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Loss, defeat, game over.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
broadly
slang
examples: Nature's Prophet going to get the last hit in as well. It's the entire team down for EHOME. This is GG.
Translations:
polska
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: polskas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of Nordic dance, usually danced with a partner in 3/4 meter.
pos: noun
Translations:
popularize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *poplos
Old Latin populus
Latin populus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -āris
Latin populārislbor.
Old French populairebor.
▲
Latin populārisbor.
Middle English populer
English popular
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English popularize
From popular + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: popularizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: popularizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: popularized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: popularized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: popularise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: American and Oxford British spelling of popularise
pos: verb
examples: Saudi yoga trainer Dr. Nouf Marwaai has also been honored with one of India’s highest civilian awards, the Padma Shri, for popularizing yoga.
Translations:
quickie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quick
English -ie
English quickie
From quick + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: quickies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something made or done swiftly.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A brief sexual encounter.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
examples: We had a quickie; I didn’t come & was only telling of the future where there was better bed fucks & us living contentedly as we walked slowly across town again to her home.
Why talk about courtly love [l'amour courtois]^([sic]) today, in an age of permissiveness when the sexual encounter is often nothing more than a ‘quickie’ in some dark corner of an office?
gloss: A fast bowler.
pos: noun
Derived words: quota quickie
Translations:
bristol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from Bristol City, the name of an English football team, for titty.
Inflected forms:
form: bristols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman's breast
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
plural-normally
slang
examples: Finally the dancer whipped her bikini top off and her bristols fell out. They looked like a pair of slatelayers' nailbags.
Translations:
devon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: devons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of processed meat sausage.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Eastern
examples: Initial suspicions pointed at both food and water, narrowing down after a while to fritz (devon, as it is known in some states), a popular, bland, processed meat.
Elsewhere the Roy Slaven signature range of smallgoods – marketed with the shout-out line, ‘Roy: still doing things with meat butchers only dream of!’ − has captured the imagination of an increasingly time-poor community looking for top-shelf short cuts in cuisine solutions. When I last looked, Roy had personally signed nearly 5.9 million salamis, chorizos and devon logs this year.
One of our firm favourites both for the quality and the taste of Ricky Roessler′s smallgoods – and the sheer joy of shopping here. No devon or pastrami, though, just plenty of bratwurst:[…].
Translations:
kent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of the verb cant.
Inflected forms:
form: kents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shepherd's staff.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A pole or pike.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: cunt.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
slang
Translations:
zaire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French zaïre. Named after the Zaire River, another name for the Congo River.
Inflected forms:
form: zaires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zaire
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The unit of currency of Zaire from 1967 to 1998.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
kina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tolai kina (“oyster or clamshell”).
Inflected forms:
form: kinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kina
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The national currency of Papua New Guinea, divided into 100 toea.
pos: noun
Translations:
surrey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Surrey cart, a type of carriage originally made in the county of Surrey in England, UK, and introduced into the USA in 1872.
Inflected forms:
form: surreys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A light horse-drawn carriage with forward-facing seats accommodating two or four people, popular in the United States; a motorized carriage of similar design.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The Surrey must be looked upon as the spring novelty in the way of road-wagons.
It suffered a wide verandah, one side of which led directly into the stables where, in former days, horses, surreys, and buggies had been kept, and where now two cars were housed— […]
When I take you out, tonight, with me, / Honey, here's the way it's goin' to be: / You will set behind a team of snow white horses, / In the slickest gig you ever see! // Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry / When I take you out in the surrey, / When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top!
Translations:
backfire
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: firefighting
government
Etymology: From back + fire.
Compound parts: back
fire
Inflected forms:
form: backfires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backfiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backfired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backfired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc., to fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of a reciprocating engine, to experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It was just after the Biafran war, and all the local people were still jumpy. Any time a car backfired or a police siren howled, they would dive under desks or tables instinctively.
gloss: To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
transitive
examples: His attempt to make money by importing luxury cars backfired horribly when fuel prices tripled.
Her plan backfired on her.
Obsessed only with cost, 'Sir Humphrey' saw that Transport for London 'got away' with ticket office closures on the Tube with only minor public pushback and miscalculated that it could do the same on the national network. This assumption backfired spectacularly.
gloss: To set a back fire (small, controlled fire to limit spread of a larger fire).
pos: verb
Translations: