yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
overworked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English worked
English overworked
From over- + worked.
Inflected forms:
form: more overworked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overworked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Subjected to too much work.
pos: adj
examples: Overworked and underpaid? Then quit your job and become a pro darts player.
Miss Suu Kyi’s overworked advisers[…]argue that people have to be realistic about what can be achieved in a short time and on a slender budget.
The truth is that we are too overworked, under capitalism, to be deeply, collectively horny, too overworked even to realise that this is the case.
gloss: Having been overused such that it has lost its meaning; trite; banal.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
phrase
usually
examples: overworked, unaffecting cliches
[Tim Garton Ash] is what you might call—overworked phrase—a public intellectual.
Dare I say “Let it go” without images of an animated princess flashing before your eyes? If it was an overworked phrase before Frozen, it’s now hard to use the expression without a shudder.
Derived words: overworkedness
Translations:
brewery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Dutch brouwerij (“brewery”), equivalent to brew + -ery. See also brewhouse.
Base: brew
Affixes: -ery
Inflected forms:
form: breweries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A building where beer is produced.
pos: noun
examples: We took a day trip to the Guiness Brewery.
gloss: A company that brews beer.
pos: noun
examples: Mike works for the local brewery.
Related words: brew
brewer
brewing
Derived words: auto-brewery syndrome
breweriana
couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
craft brewery
macrobrewery
microbrewery
minibrewery
nanobrewery
superbrewery
Translations:
rainforest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rain + forest, a calque of German Regenwald.
Base: rain
Inflected forms:
form: rainforests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rain forest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Perhaps the most impressive expression of species diversity is the density of species found in a given area of rainforest.
Tropical rainforests in Australia have suffered a fate similar in many ways to that of rainforests elsewhere in the world, but considerable progress in safeguarding the future of what remains has been made.
Enjoy your visit to the rainforests, because the next time you go there things could be very different.
Some researchers worry that rainforests will soon reach a tipping point — a point of no return in which the once-lush forests transition to arid regions.
The Sentinelese hunt in the rainforest and fish in the coastal waters using spears, bows and arrows, as well as homemade narrow outrigger canoes, according to Survival International.
Translations:
hick
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hick (“pet form of Richard”).
Inflected forms:
form: hicks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hicks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hicking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hicked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hicked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: To hiccup.
pos: verb
Translations:
fruity
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg-
Proto-Italic *frūgjōr
Latin fruor
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin frūctus
Old French fruitbor.
Middle English fruyt
English fruit
English -y
English fruity
From fruit + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: fruitier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fruitiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Containing fruit or fruit flavoring.
pos: adj
examples: That moist and fruity dish is simply delectable.
gloss: Similar to fruit or tasting of fruit.
pos: adj
gloss: Crazy.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Homosexual; zesty, flamboyant, effeminate.
pos: adj
tags: US
derogatory
informal
sometimes
gloss: Sexually suggestive.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
examples: His text message was filled with fruity language.
Derived words: fruitily
fruitiness
fruity in the booty
unfruity
Translations:
unforgettable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + forget + -able or un- + forgettable.
Base: forget
Affixes: un-
-able
Inflected forms:
form: more unforgettable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unforgettable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very difficult or impossible to forget.
pos: adj
examples: The things he subjected me to were horrible and unforgettable.
He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.
The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.
Translations:
breeze-block
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From breeze (“residue from a furnace”) + block.
Compound parts: breeze
block
Inflected forms:
form: breeze-blocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: breeze block
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: breezeblock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: brieze block
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lightweight building block made from cinders and concrete.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
stewardess
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English steward
Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa)bor.
Late Latin -issader.
Old French -essebor.
Middle English -esse
English -ess
English stewardess
From steward + -ess (feminine suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: stewardesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stewardii
pos: noun
tags: humorous
nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: A female flight attendant (a member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers).
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A woman who works at housekeeping and passenger service aboard a ship, yacht, or other type of boat that carries passengers.
pos: noun
examples: She usually rang for the stewardess early, but this morning of course there had been no ring. The stewardess had gone in all the same about eight o'clock and found the cabin empty.
Certainly a stewardess who may have fifty or even a hundred passengers to look after cannot give much attention to nursing, even if she knows how.
He regarded the tray with apprehension, then with dismay as the stewardess said: "She's just rung for breakfast in bed, going to stay there all day as she feels a cold coming."
I came into the industry as a chef with restaurant and catering experience but no real understanding of what the whole role of "stewardess" entailed on board.
gloss: A female steward (any sense).
pos: noun
examples: The stewardess, principal inspector of the cow stable and the butter establishment, was indeed with the young lady, who had just entered the yard.
The occasion – the very first trip of a stewardess on Capitol, eastbound B & O […]
Arbitrator John Day Larkin upholds the discharge of a female employee who had a fight with a union stewardess on a company parking lot.
On the transfer of any hostess or stewardess from one permanent base to another, the employer shall pay the expenses properly incurred by the hostess or stewardess for the removal of her dependants, her furniture, and personal effects, such expenses to be mutually agreed upon.
The kitchen stewardess says madam sits there glaring at the paper on the wall.
Synonyms: air-girl
air hostess
airline stewardess
air stewardess
cart tart
flight hostess
flight stewardess
hostie
sky girl
sky waitress
trolley dolly
Related words: air nurse
flight nurse
Derived words: wine stewardess
Translations:
spandex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined as an anagram of the word expands.
Inflected forms:
form: spandexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A synthetic fibre known for its exceptional elasticity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Clothing made from such material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: elastane
lycra
Derived words: spandexed
Translations:
riverside
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rive
English -er
English river
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
English riverside
From river + side.
Inflected forms:
form: riversides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bank or side of a river.
pos: noun
examples: Gonna lay down my burden; Down by the riverside...
Staff have worked since February 10 to remove debris from the River Nith, install rock armour protection and strengthen the riverside before rebuilding and reprofiling the embankment.
gloss: At or near the side of a river.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
decor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *dḱeh₁yéti
Proto-Italic *dekējeti
Proto-Italic *dekēt
Latin decet
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin decorlbor.
French décorbor.
English decor
Borrowed from French décor.
Inflected forms:
form: decors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: décor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The style of decoration of a room or building.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her living room had a lush Persian-style decor.
gloss: A stage setting; scenery; set; backdrop.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: cocaine decor
Translations:
sundown
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sun + down.
Compound parts: sun
down
Inflected forms:
form: sundowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sundowns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sundowning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sundowned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sundowned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Sunset.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: We’ll meet by the pier at sundown.
Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor
⁠An inner trouble I behold,
⁠A spectral doubt which makes me cold,
That I shall be thy mate no more, […]
gloss: A hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes from sunlight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: to experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at the approach of nightfall.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "She also “sundowned”, and someone had to keep an eye on her 24-7."
Synonyms: dusk
mirkning
nightfall
Derived words: sundown syndrome
sundown town
Translations:
hustler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hustle
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 hustler
From hustle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: hustlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who rushes or hurries; an energetic person.
pos: noun
gloss: Somebody who pretends to be an amateur at a game in order to win bets.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: ringer
gloss: A pimp.
pos: noun
gloss: A prostitute.
pos: noun
gloss: A prostitute.
pos: noun
gloss: A charlatan, huckster, grifter, swindler, a scoundrel.
pos: noun
examples: Both of these people are race hustlers, though not of the same degree.
So why were what I consider the usual national race hustler personalities here in Minnesota?
gloss: One who is willing to suffer the most for the sake of company profits; a hard worker.
pos: noun
Related words: ringer
Derived words: Hollywood hustler
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: huijari
lang: German
word: Hektiker
lang: German
word: Haster
lang: German
word: Wühler
lang: German
word: Dränger
lang: German
word: Draufgänger
lang: German
word: umtriebiger Mensch
lang: German
word: umtriebige Person
lang: German
word: aufdringlicher Verkäufer
lang: Italian
word: agitato
lang: Italian
word: frettoloso
lang: Italian
word: irrequieto
lang: Persian
word: کلاش
roman: kallâš
lang: Polish
word: kanciarz
lang: Polish
word: naciągacz
lang: Polish
word: naciągaczka
lang: Romanian
word: escroc
lang: Russian
word: шу́лер
roman: šúler
lang: Russian
word: жу́лик
roman: žúlik
lang: Russian
word: ловка́ч
roman: lovkáč
lang: Spanish
word: buscavida
lang: Spanish
word: busquillo
lang: Spanish
word: busquilla
lang: Spanish
word: arribista
lang: Spanish
word: esprín / mosca / vivo / buzo
lang: Spanish
word: buscavidas
lang: Spanish
word: vivón
lang: Turkish
word: aceleci
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: عجلهجی
roman: ʼaceleci
spurge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French espurgebor.
Middle English spurge
English spurge
Inherited from Middle English spurge, from Old French espurge, from espurgier (“to purge”), from Latin expurgo (“to purge”); the bitter milky sap of these plants was formerly used as a purgative.
Inflected forms:
form: spurges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spurges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spurging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spurged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spurged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Euphorbia, a diverse genus of over 2,000 species.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.
A compound of spurge, cardamom, cinnamon of Mecca, pellitory, ginger, nettle seed is an Arab specific for sexual weakness.
gloss: Any plant of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A plant resembling those in genus Euphorbia in some aspect of its appearance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To emit foam; to froth; said of the emission of yeast from beer during fermentation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The body's somthing noysome: 'tis a stale one; / Good troth it spurgeth very monstrously.
Derived words: balsam spurge
spurgewort
Allegheny spurge
Allegheny mountain spurge
broom spurge
caper spurge
cliff spurge
coast spurge
creeping spurge
cushion spurge
cypress spurge
dwarf spurge
flowering spurge
glade spurge
gopher spurge
graveyard spurge
green spurge
Gregersen's spurge
Griffith's spurge
hairy spurge
Hall's shrubby spurge)
Indian spurge tree
Indian tree spurge
ipecac spurge
Japanese spurge
knotweed spurge
leaf spurge
leafy spurge
Mediterranean spurge
mottled spurge
myrtle spurge
nettlespurge
painted spurge
paper spurge
Peking spurge
petty spurge
pill-bearing spurge
prairie spurge
prostrate spurge
purple spurge
red spurge Euphorbia cotinifolia)
resin spurge
sand spurge
sawtooth spurge
seaside spurge
sea spurge
serrated spurge
shore spurge
silver spurge
slipper spurge
spotted spurge
spurge daphne
spurge flax
spurge hawk-moth
spurge laurel
spurge nettle
spurge olive
stubble spurge
sun spurge
toothed spurge
tramp's spurge
tree spurge
upright myrtle spurge
variegated spurge
wart spurge
white-margined spurge
wild spurge
wood spurge
Translations:
spineless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spine
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
Middle English -les
English -less
English spineless
From spine + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more spineless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spineless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having no spines, prickles, or thorns.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having no spinal column.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Cowardly, uncourageous; lacking character.
pos: adj
examples: If this results in a society which MacIntyre has criticized as being the province of the manager, the aesthete and the analyst, types almost sinister in their philosophical lightmindedness, superficiality, programmed uninterestingness, and their depressingly spineless willingness to grant the presence of 'despicable types' for the sake of political freedom, then so be it.
Killership requires a person to become brave and polite. It is not deal of weakwilled and spineless people. This deal likes neither cheating nor foolishness.
Derived words: spineless eel
spinelessly
spinelessness
spineless sadism
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: бесхрыбе́тны
roman: bjesxrybjétny
lang: Bulgarian
word: безгръбна́чен
roman: bezgrǎbnáčen
lang: Czech
word: bezpáteřný
lang: Estonian
word: selgrootu
lang: Finnish
word: selkärangaton
lang: German
word: rückgratlos
lang: German
word: stachellos
lang: Macedonian
word: безрбетен
roman: bezrbeten
lang: Māori
word: iwituararokore
lang: Polish
word: bezkręgowy
lang: Russian
word: бесхребе́тный
roman: besxrebétnyj
lang: Russian
word: беспозвоно́чный
roman: bespozvonóčnyj
lang: Swedish
word: ryggradslös
lang: Ukrainian
word: безхребе́тний
roman: bezxrebétnyj
herpes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin herpēs, from Ancient Greek ἕρπης (hérpēs, “herpes”, literally “a creeping”), from ἕρπειν (hérpein, “to creep”).
Inflected forms:
form: herpeses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A viral infection, caused by Human alphaherpesvirus 1 and Human alphaherpesvirus 2, marked by painful, watery blisters in the skin or in the mucous membranes or on the genitals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This, of course, is something only people with that STI would know. For example, herpes is 437737.
Translations:
feedback
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English feed
English back
English feedback
From feed + back.
Inflected forms:
form: feedbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: feedbacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: feedbacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: feedbacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: feedbacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: After you hand in your essays, I will give both grades and feedback.
“Over the past month, the Department has held three separate meetings with the ACLU to receive feedback and engage the organization in the solutions,” the department said in a statement. “As a result of the meetings, the Department agrees that publishing FIO statistics going forward is necessary, and the Department is working toward personalizing interactions between officers and citizens.”
gloss: The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The fact that similar cortical abnormalities can be experimentally induced in monkeys has allowed Michael Merzenich and his colleagues in San Francisco to explore an animal model of focal dystonia, and to demonstrate the abnormal feedback in the sensory loop and the motor misfirings that, once started, grow relentlessly worse.
gloss: The high-pitched howling noise heard when there is a loop between a microphone and a speaker.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: A loud feedback screech blasted from a speaker on the wall. It was a hailing signal of some kind.
gloss: To generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.
pos: verb
examples: The show ended with a riot of feedbacking guitars.
gloss: To provide informational feedback to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His employees feedbacked him a lot more than he wanted.
gloss: To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Customers feedbacked their complaints and some praise.
Derived words: 360 degree feedback
antifeedback
autofeedback
biofeedback
degenerative feedback
enterprise feedback management
feedback control
feedbacker
feedback loop
feedback transfer function
feedbacky
ice-albedo feedback
neurofeedback
postfeedback
regenerative feedback
video feedback
Translations:
rodeo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Spanish rodeo, from rodear (“to surround”), which refers to a cattle roundup.
Inflected forms:
form: rodeos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rodeos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rodeoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rodeoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rodeoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A gathering of cattle to be branded.
pos: noun
gloss: A North American sport involving skills with horses, cows and other livestock.
pos: noun
gloss: An entertainment event associated with the sport.
pos: noun
gloss: To perform in a rodeo show.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: antirodeo
been to the rodeo
brodeo
buffer rodeo
goat rodeo
mudeo
not one's first rodeo
roadeo
rodeo clown
rodeoer
rolleo
Translations:
dribbling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Inflected forms:
form: dribblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An amount of liquid that is dribbled.
pos: noun
examples: In dry weather, when plants are drawn out of the seed bed, and planted with a common dibber, receiving daily dribblings of water, many will perish, and all are materially injured.
From the mouth you early observe a dribbling of saliva of a sticky nature and mixed with air, and of a disagreeable fetor […]
gloss: The act of dribbling.
pos: noun
examples: ... dribbling skills. Depending on the purpose of dribbling, an athlete can use different dribbling techniques to accomplish his/her goals. There are four dribbling skills: (1) inside of the foot dribbling, (2) innerside of the instep dribbling[…]
Translations:
provider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From provide + -er. Since 15th century.
Base: provide
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: providers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence.
pos: noun
examples: In view of this, it is clear why internet service providers (ISPs) are inclined to play a backbench role when it comes to combating file sharing.
Using BLE, a merchant or other provider can define more targeted "micro-locations" to trigger an alert, in some cases requiring that you be in the presence of an iBeacon in order to validate a Passbook entry.
Even if policy shifts resources away from hard investment and back into social spending, the "Floridization" of Chinese demographics will intensify the shortage of healthcare provision over the next decade, worsening the frayed contract between patients, providers, and the government.
A part of the nervousness at Chelsea involves whether any more sponsors will follow the telecommunications and internet service provider Three in withdrawing support, at least temporarily.
Both switching costs and network effects tend to lead to enshittification because platform providers see early adopters as an investment in future profits.
Translations:
heirloom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English heirlome (“heirloom”, literally “a tool or article passed to one's heirs”). By surface analysis, heir + loom.
Displaced native Old English fæderġestrēon.
Inflected forms:
form: heirlooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heir-loom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A valued possession that has been passed down through the generations.
pos: noun
examples: Morning rehearsal starts at eleven. Wheeler takes a taxi from the hotel to the venue, bringing his tuxedo and his violin with him. His violin is an heirloom, more than a hundred years old, and while he's touring it never leaves his sight. (His tuxedo is just a tuxedo.)
gloss: An old crop variety that has been passed down through generations of farmers by seed saving and cultivation, in contrast to modern cultivars used in large-scale agriculture.
pos: noun
examples: My last trip to the market barely yielded enough unmealy heirlooms for a couple of salads.
At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.
In a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, a team of researchers say they analyzed the genetic code of nearly 400 varieties of tomatoes ― from the common red supermarket types to the funky heirlooms found in farmers markets.
Related words: heritage
landrace
Translations:
vroom
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: broom
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: brrm
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: brrrm
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: vrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vrooms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vrooming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vroomed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vroomed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sound of an engine, especially when it is revving up.
pos: intj
tags: often
reduplication
examples: I never saw my uncle’s Ferrari, but I could always hear it going vroom as it flew past by my house.
gloss: The sound of an engine revving up.
pos: noun
examples: Our ears are assaulted with the screeching of tires, the crashing of trash cans, the exaggerated vrooms of a revving engine.
gloss: To move with great speed; to zoom.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Translations:
dynastic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δυναστικός (dunastikós). By surface analysis, dynasty + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more dynastic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dynastic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a dynasty.
pos: adj
Translations:
pedicure
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French pédicure, from Latin pes (“foot”).
Inflected forms:
form: pedicures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pedicures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pedicuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pedicured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pedicured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cosmetic treatment for the feet and toenails.
pos: noun
gloss: A pedicurist.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: To apply such a treatment to the feet.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
Derived words: fish pedicure
French pedicure
mani-pedi
pawdicure
pedi
pedicurism
Translations:
putty
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from French potée (“polishing powder", originally "the contents of a pot, potful”), from French pot (“pot”). More at English pot.
Inflected forms:
form: putties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: putties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: puttying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: puttied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: puttied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fixate panes of glass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of a range of similar substances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of a range of similar substances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A golf ball made of composition and not gutta-percha.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or resembling putty.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To fix or fill using putty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: glazier's putty
nose putty
putty-hearted
putty in someone's fingers
putty in someone's hands
puttyish
putty knife
puttyless
puttylike
putty medal
putty powder
puttyroot
putty rubber
silly putty
wood putty
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: màstic
lang: Finnish
word: silote
lang: Swedish
word: spackel
twirl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Of Scandinavian origin, akin to Norwegian Nynorsk tvirla, Old High German dweran (German zwirlen, quirlen), Dutch dwarrelen and Icelandic þyrill; all from Proto-Germanic *þwirilaz (“stirring-stick, whisk”), *þweraną (“to stir”). Or, an alteration of tirl (“to twist”), with influence from whirl.
Inflected forms:
form: twirls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: twirls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: twirling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: twirled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: twirled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette.
pos: noun
gloss: Any rotating movement; a spin.
pos: noun
examples: The conductor gave his baton a twirl, and the orchestra began to play.
When the cock had now crowed for the third time, and the little larks had made their first twirl in the sky, and the infant light appeared in solitary white streaks in the east, then it went hush, hush, hush, through the bushes, and flowers, and stalks; and the hills rang again, and opened, and the little men went down.
gloss: A little twist of some substance; a swirl.
pos: noun
examples: Place the cream in a piping bag with a fairly large star pipe attached, fill each tartlet with a twirl of cream and top with a strawberry.
gloss: A prison guard.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Which was in the main childishness and pettiness, the reason for this was that most of the twirls and the governors had […]
gloss: To perform a twirl.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To rotate rapidly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: See ruddy maids, / Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel.
No more beneath soft eve's consenting star / Fandango twirls his jocund castanet.
gloss: To twist round.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He inflated his chest, twirled his moustache, and thumped the table with a revulsion to thunderous indignation.
gloss: To pitch.
pos: verb
examples: When the batteries were announced, however, and Herb Pennock of the Boston Red Sox, probably the best pitcher in all baseballdom, was named to twirl for the invading team, we felt we had been tricked.
Derived words: squirl
twirl one's thumbs
twirler
twirl one's moustache
Translations:
weedy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *weud
Old English wēod
Middle English weed
English weed
English -y
English weedy
From weed + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: weedier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: weediest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Abounding with weeds.
pos: adj
examples: weedy grounds
a weedy garden
weedy corn
1577, Barnabe Googe (translator), The Foure Bookes of Husbandry, collected by M. Conradus Heresbachius, London: Richard Watkins, Book 1, p. 27,
Wheate delighteth in a leuell, riche, warme, and a drye ground: a shaddowy, weedy, and a hilly ground, it loueth not […]
See, from the weedy earth a rivulet break
And purl along the untrodden wilderness;
gloss: Of, relating to or resembling weeds.
pos: adj
examples: The wild rice has a peculiar weedy, smoky flavor, but if properly cooked is very delicious.
A faint weedy smell came up from the river […]
She had weedy hair of that vague color which is neither brown nor blond, that hasn't enough life in it to be ginger, and isn't clean enough to be gray.
gloss: Consisting of weeds.
pos: adj
examples: There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
Clamb’ring to hang, an envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook.
Daily the beans saw me come to their rescue armed with a hoe, and thin the ranks of their enemies, filling up the trenches with weedy dead.
1917, James Joyce, “Flood” in Poetry, Volume 10, April-September, 1917, p. 73,
A waste of waters ruthlessly
Sways and uplifts its weedy mane,
Where brooding day stares down upon the sea
In dull disdain.
gloss: Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.
pos: adj
examples: a weedy species
a weedy vine
[…] and so your soyle being drayned and kept dry, all those wéedy kindes of grasse will soone perish.
gloss: Small and weak.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a weedy lad
I’ll bring Grace, who is looking rather pale and weedy; growing too fast, I’m afraid.
1924, Edith Wharton, The Spark (The Sixties), Chapter 2, in Old New York, New York: 1981, p. 146,
Byrne was hurling himself across the field, crouched on the neck of his somewhat weedy mount […]
We were about the same age. He was weedy, nearly a head taller than I, but fifty pounds lighter.
gloss: Lacking power or effectiveness.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
figuratively
informal
examples: a weedy excuse
a weedy attempt
a weedy motor
Everything in moderation is a bit of a weedy call to arms, but as a rule for living it’s hard to beat.
2016, Orla Kiely, quoted in “Designs for life from Orla Kiely,” Irish Independent, 3 April, 2016,
We wanted to make sure that our jewellery made a statement, that it wasn't wimpy or weedy.
Derived words: weedily
weediness
weedy hawksbeard
weedy sea dragon
Translations:
truckload
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *drem-influ.
Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō)
Ancient Greek -ῐ́λος (-ĭ́los)
Ancient Greek τροχῐ́λος (trokhĭ́los)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek -είᾱ (-eíā)
Ancient Greek τροχῐλείᾱ (trokhĭleíā)der.
Medieval Latin trochleader.
Anglo-Norman troclebor.
Middle English trokel
English truckle?
English truck
English load
English truckload
From truck + load.
Inflected forms:
form: truckloads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The contents of a full truck or lorry.
pos: noun
examples: A task force of 1,000 gas-masked, ready-to-shoot state troopers and sheriff’s deputies, backed in reserve by 70 truckloads of New York National Guardsmen, liberated 29 other hostages, 25 of whom were injured.
gloss: A large number.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: We were expecting just a handful of people to come to the festival, but then a truckload of revellers started arriving at the festival gates.
Another meme shows an empty van. “Excellent news,” it reads. “The first truckload of your thoughts and prayers has just arrived.”
Derived words: less than truckload
Translations:
commandant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *manus
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.
Proto-Italic *-ðō
Proto-Italic *manuðō
Latin mandō
Latin commendō
▲
Latin mandōinflu.
Latin commandāre
Old French comander
Middle French commander
French commanderder.
French commandant
English commandant
From French commandant.
Inflected forms:
form: commandants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A commanding officer, usually of a specific force or division.
pos: noun
gloss: A military rank equivalent to major used in some countries, especially when derived from French usage.
pos: noun
gloss: lieutenant-colonel
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
historical
Derived words: colonel commandant
colonel-commandant
commandant-general
commandantship
Translations:
mangy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mange
English -y
English mangy
From mange + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: mangier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: mangiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mangey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
pos: adj
gloss: Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.
When we came abreast again, they faced the river, stamped their feet, nodded their horned heads, swayed their scarlet bodies; they shook towards the fierce river-demon a bunch of black feathers, a mangy skin with a pendent tail— something that looked a dried gourd; they shouted periodically together strings of amazing words that resembled no sounds of human language; and the deep murmurs of the crowd, interrupted suddenly, were like the responses of some satanic litany.
Specter Knight: 'YOUR QUEST TO BECOME KING OF CARDS HAS NOT... GONE UNNOTICED.' / King Knight: 'AH, WORD HAS REACHED THE SLUMS, HAS IT? AM I TO TRAVEL WITH AN ENTOURAGE OF MANGY BEGGARS, NOW?'
gloss: Contemptible, despicable, low.
pos: adj
examples: And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]
Derived words: mangily
manginess
Translations:
humping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: humpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hump or mound.
pos: noun
examples: The foreign ladies, in their simple, tasteful, fresh attire, innocent of the humpings and bunchings, the monstrosities and deformities of ultra-fashionable bad taste, beamed with cheerfulness, friendliness, and kindliness.
gloss: Sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: As for sex, every man in the county knew of the famous thirty-minute humpings available from one of the 'girls' who worked out of the rear rooms of Angels Motel.
Translations:
lakeside
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lake
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
English -side
English lakeside
From lake + -side.
Inflected forms:
form: lakesides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ground near the edge of a lake; the land adjacent to a lake.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: By the side of a lake.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ting
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: tings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tinging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tinged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tinged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Representing a high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
pos: intj
examples: Ting, ting, ting! went the bell again. Everybody sat down; the curtain shook, rose sufficiently high to display several pair of yellow boots paddling about, and there it remained.
Lonnie shook the Sacajaweas from his hand and let them land noisily on the glass coffee table—ting ting ting—oblivious or indifferent or likely hostile to Ig so near to nap.
“Aah, Miss Zoe!” proclaimed Raj, as she opened the door to his shop. The bell rang as she entered. TING.
gloss: A high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
pos: noun
examples: Through the sound of the shivering glass I could hear the "ting" of the gold, as some of the sovereigns fell on the flagging.
At the same moment the ting of a bell sounded sharply.
gloss: To make a high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
pos: verb
examples: When the microwaved food was ready, the bell tinged.
It was built by Alco—the American Locomotive Company—and looked fairly new; it was carried on two 4-wheel bogies, and had a funny bell that tinged continuously somewhere inside.
Translations:
racquetball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From racquet + ball.
Compound parts: racquet
ball
Inflected forms:
form: racquetballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: racketball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A certain sport, similar to squash, but played with a bigger ball.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A ball used for this sport.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: racquets
racquet
racket
Derived words: racquetballer
Translations:
cooling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, cool + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more cooling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cooling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: coolings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That cools.
pos: adj
gloss: Of food or medicine, according to traditional Chinese medicine: serving to cool or calm the body.
pos: adj
examples: Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?
gloss: A decrease in temperature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Refrigeration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: cooling board
cooling center
cooling curve
cooling glass
cooling glasses
cooling-off period
cooling pond
cooling rack
cooling shelter
cooling station
cooling tower
cooling water
adiabatic cooling
aftercooling
coolingly
cooling plant
cooling time
cryocooling
decooling
district cooling
dynamic cooling
evaporative cooling
expansion cooling
free-cooling
global cooling
heroic cooling
house cooling party
laser cooling
lubro-cooling
overcooling
Peltier cooling
Sisyphus cooling
subcooling
telecooling
Translations:
prowl
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English prollen, of unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: prowls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prowling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prowled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prowled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prowls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Watch the lioness prowling in the shrubbery for zebras.
It's easy to sneak vandalism into Wiktionary as there are few other users prowling the Recent Changes page.
He prowls each place, still in new colours decked.
While McCarthy prowled the touchline barking orders, his opposite number watched on motionless and expressionless and, with 25 minutes to go, decided to throw on Nicolas Anelka for Kalou.
gloss: To idle; to go about aimlessly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: That dandy has nothing better to do than prowl around town all day in his pinstripe suit.
gloss: To collect by plunder.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: to prowl money
gloss: The act of prowling.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: I'm going on a midnight prowl.
Derived words: aprowl
on the prowl
prowl car
prowler
prowlingly
Translations:
motorcade
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of motor + cavalcade.
Compound parts: motor
cavalcade
Inflected forms:
form: motorcades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: motorcades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: motorcading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: motorcaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: motorcaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A procession of cars carrying VIPs, especially political figures.
pos: noun
examples: JFK was assassinated in a motorcade.
The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.
gloss: To travel in a motorcade.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We then motorcaded to our hotel to change into formal wear[…]
Translations:
disgruntled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From disgruntle + -ed (suffix forming past tense and past participle forms of verbs).
Base: disgruntle
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more disgruntled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disgruntled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a dissatisfied, frustrated, or upset mood; in a bad temper or ill humour.
pos: adj
examples: disgruntled employees preparing to strike over the lack of progress in talks with their employer on pay and conditions
About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. […] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?
A good proportion of British Railways' most disgruntled main line passengers will be found among those who have to make long-distance journeys at week-ends, when trains are apt to be diverted and re-timed because of large-scale engineering works.
Translations:
morse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French mors, from Latin morsus (“bite; clasp”), from mordere (“to bite”).
Inflected forms:
form: morses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative.
pos: noun
examples: The morse bore a seraph's head in gold-thread raised work.
Translations:
counterproductive
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 contrāder.
Old French contre-
Anglo-Norman countre-bor.
Middle English counter-
English counter-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Late Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Late Latin dūcō
Late Latin prōdūcō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Late Latin -īvus
Late Latin prōductīvusbor.
English productive
English counterproductive
From counter- + productive.
Inflected forms:
form: more counterproductive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most counterproductive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: More of a hindrance than a help.
pos: adj
examples: The curse has been Spanish ineptitude feeding Gibraltarian intransigence. Border hold-ups are counterproductive to winning hearts and minds, as were blundering Argentinian landings on the outer Falklands.
It's most likely that these kinds of cuts to service frequencies, train formations, and service start and finish times would cost more in revenue than they save in cost and would therefore be counterproductive.
Antonyms: productive
Translations:
teensy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Baby-talk alteration of teeny, from tiny, probably modelled after itsy, itsy-bitsy, etc.; see -sy.
Affixes: -sy
Inflected forms:
form: teensier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: teensiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: tiny
pos: adj
tags: childish
informal
examples: There's only a teensy chance that I'll be able to make your party, as I'm up to my eyeballs in work.
Translations:
showdown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: From show + down.
Compound parts: show
down
Inflected forms:
form: showdowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: show-down
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The final battle between two opponents, in which there can be only one victor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
idiomatic
uncountable
examples: David cut his teeth on international politics in his showdown with Goliath, a battle fit for the ages.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored on his first start since recovering from malaria as Arsenal prepared for their Europa League showdown against Villarreal with a confidence-boosting win away to Newcastle at St James' Park.
gloss: The final round in a poker match, where all of the remaining players' cards have to be put down on the table and shown.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: posedown
Translations: