yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
glacier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
hobbies
lifestyle
mountaineering
natural-sciences
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal gllaciér, from Vulgar Latin *glaciārium, a derivative of Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin. First attested in English in 1744 per the OED.
Inflected forms:
form: glaciers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
pos: noun
examples: They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.
gloss: An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.
pos: noun
examples: You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.
gloss: Something that moves very slowly
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The queue in the pharmacy was a glacier.
Related words: glacial
glaciate
glaciology
iceberg
Derived words: continental glacier
Doomsday Glacier
glaciation
glacier bird
glacier buttercup
Glacier County
glacier cream
glaciered
Glaciergate
glacier glasses
glacierist
glacierization
glacierized
glacierless
glacierlike
glacier lily
glacier milk
glacier mouse
Hubbard Glacier
palaeoglacier
paleoglacier
rock glacier
Ruth Glacier
salt glacier
Siachen Glacier
snowdrift glacier
Thwaites Glacier
Translations:
glazier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English glazier, glasier, glasyer, glasiere, variants (due to influence from words in -yer) of Middle English glaser, equivalent to glass + -er.
Affixes: -yer
Inflected forms:
form: glaziers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who glazes: a craftsman who works with glass, fitting windows, etc.
pos: noun
examples: "In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,” says an old writer—of whose works I possess the only copy extant—“it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier."
Translations:
conlang
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *ster-
Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *strew-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *stréweti
Proto-Italic *strowō
Latin struō
Latin cōnstruōder.
Latin cōnstrūctusbor.
English construct
Proto-Germanic *-ōd-
Old English -ode
Middle English -ede
English -ed
English constructed
Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā
Latin dingua
Latin lingua
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Vulgar Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Vulgar Latin -icus
Vulgar Latin -āticus
Vulgar Latin -āticum
Vulgar Latin *linguāticum
Old French languagebor.
Middle English langage
English language
English conlang
The noun is a blend of constructed + language, while the verb is derived from the noun. By surface analysis, con- (“constructed”) + lang or -lang (“language”).
Affixes: -lang
Inflected forms:
form: conlangs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: conlanging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: conlanged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: conlanged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To create or work on a conlang (constructed language).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I've been conlanging since I was nine years old.
Brithenig was conlanged with the purpose of looking how Welsh might have developed if it were a Romance language.
Translations:
bootstrapping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bootstrappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is bootstrapped.
pos: noun
Translations:
mohel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew מוֹהֵל (mohél), but the common pronunciations are borrowed via Yiddish מוהל (moyel).
Inflected forms:
form: mohels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mohelim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mohalim
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
Translations:
golf
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: The word is first known in English from the 17th century as a borrowing from Middle Scots golf, gouff. Although the etymology is uncertain, the most likely origin is that it comes from the Middle Dutch colve, colf (“club”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“club”), related to German Kolben (“piston, rod”), Swedish kolv (“piston, rod”), Old English clopp (“rock; cliff”), English kelp.
Inflected forms:
form: golfs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: golfing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: golfed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: golfed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To play the game of golf.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Last mystery of all, he learned to golf.
gloss: To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)
pos: verb
Translations:
dry-tool
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: dry-tools
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dry-tooling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dry-tooled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dry-tooled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To climb bare rock using ice climbing equipment.
pos: verb
gloss: To have sexual intercourse without lubricant.
pos: verb
tags: slang
vulgar
Translations:
unitary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
linear-algebra
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unit
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusder.
Middle English -arie
English -ary
English unitary
From unit + -ary.
Inflected forms:
form: unitaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the quality of oneness.
pos: adj
examples: If yes–no questions are CPs containing a null yes–no question operator (a null counterpart of whether) in spec-CP, we can arrive at a unitary characterisation of questions as CPs with an interrogative specifier.
gloss: That concentrates power in a single body, rather than sharing it with more local bodies.
pos: adj
examples: a unitary authority
a unitary state
gloss: That contains an identity element.
pos: adj
gloss: Whose inverse is equal to its adjoint.
pos: adj
examples: The eigenvectors of an orthogonal or unitary operator, corresponding to different eigenvalues, are orthogonal.
In essence we are looking for some way to average the individual unitary matrices Uₖ. But a linear combination of unitary matrices does not remain unitary.
We then repeat the same procedure to the (d − 1) × (d − 1) block unitary matrix using (d − 2) two-level unitary matrices.
gloss: A unitary council.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Outside the metropolitan areas most councils (English and Welsh counties, London boroughs, Scottish and Welsh unitaries, and Northern Ireland districts) are now elected en bloc every four years.
gloss: A unitary matrix or operator.
pos: noun
examples: 1980, Michael Reed, Barry Simon, Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics, Volume 1: Functional Analysis, Revised and Expanded Edition page 243,
Since ergodicity and mixing are expressible in terms of the induced Koopman unitaries they are not additional invariants.
Can unitaries in a unital C*-algebra with real rank zero be approximated by unitaries with finite spectrum?
Antonyms: confederal
Related words: unitariness
unitarily
unitarity
unitarian
unitize
unitise
singular
unionized
united
Derived words: special unitary group
unitary authority
unitary council
unitary government
unitary group
unitary matrix
unitary psychosis
unitary representation
unitary state
Translations:
kama
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 鎌 (kama, “sickle, scythe”).
Inflected forms:
form: kama
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.
pos: noun
Translations:
y-axis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: y-axes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top and usually shows the range of values of variable dependent on one other variable, or the second of two independent variables.
pos: noun
Translations:
z-axis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: z-axes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The axis on a graph of at least three dimensions that is usually drawn vertically and usually shows the range of values of a variable dependent on two other variables or the third independent variable.
pos: noun
Translations:
nubbin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Perhaps nub + -in.
Base: nub
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: nubbins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nubbing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple.
pos: noun
gloss: A small protuberance, bud, bump, or knob.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: As an avid button collector, I have had to develop an efficient way of removing the nubbin of thread from the buttonhole.
She walks to the next room, a little larger, holding a double bed. The shade is half drawn, and low light gives each nubbin of the bedspread a shadow.
gloss: Synonym of clitoris.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
slang
vulgar
Derived words: nubbin disease
Translations:
dolce
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian dolce. Doublet of douce, doux, and dulce.
Inflected forms:
form: dolces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soft-toned organ stop.
pos: noun
Translations:
granduncle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English graunt oncle, equivalent to grand- + uncle.
Base: uncle
Affixes: grand-
Inflected forms:
form: granduncles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grand uncle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: grand-uncle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of great-uncle.
pos: noun
Translations:
shuriken
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 手裏剣 (しゅりけん shuriken), from Middle Chinese 手 (ʃúw "hand") + 裏 (lí "inside") + 劍 (kjæ̀m "sword").
Inflected forms:
form: shurikens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shuriken
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dart or throwing blade, sometimes with multiple points, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai).
pos: noun
Translations:
tycoon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
video-games
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 大君(たいくん) (taikun, “great lord, prince”), a title for the shōgun. Related to taipan, from Cantonese 大班 (daai⁶ baan¹). The game sense was derived from the use of tycoon in titles of games in which one plays a tycoon (e.g., RollerCoaster Tycoon).
Inflected forms:
form: tycoons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wealthy and powerful business person.
pos: noun
examples: Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.
Sometimes even Greek shipping tycoons run out of money.
gloss: A business simulator game, typically involving building and managing some form of infrastructure.
pos: noun
examples: Zoo Tycoon is only one of several "tycoon" types of games, such as Railroad Tycoon, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Pizza Tycoon, and, without the "tycoon" title, but with all the fun and challenge, The Movies.
Whilst making spaces more green is generally a goal for town planning these days, this game in the style of classic tycoons like SimCity and Rollercoaster Tycoon, does the complete opposite.
gloss: A game involving the use of a base to generate bricks and cash (similar to an idle game or clicker game), which can then be used to purchase upgrades and expand. Common within the massively multiplayer online game platform Roblox.
pos: noun
examples: Tycoons / A game in which users build up some sort of business by earning money over time and then using that money on upgrades.
In most tycoons, you will find an automatic machine called a dropper, which is used for producing bricks.
In my opinion, tycoons are great to create as your first game, but they take time to learn! The main tips are to keep the tycoon simple and stick with a theme.
These experiences have fallen somewhat out of favor because once a tycoon is complete and all items are unlocked, there is not much of an incentive to continue playing. Updating these experiences can be a more difficult task, depending on how your tycoon is structured.
“What should we play? Adopt Me, a tycoon, SCP, an obby?”
The next most common game that we see inside Roblox are Tycoons.
gloss: The first placer of Tycoon.
pos: noun
Related words: daimyō
taipan
Derived words: oil tycoon
tycoon game
tycoonocracy
tycoonocrat
Translations:
mese
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mesen, of North Germanic origin. More at meek.
Inflected forms:
form: meses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mesing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mesed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mesed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.
pos: verb
Translations:
bokken
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 木剣 (ぼっけん, bokken, “wooden sword”), see below.
Inflected forms:
form: bokkens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bokken
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wooden katana, used as a training sword.
pos: noun
Translations:
having
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: havings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of possessing; ownership.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He thus came to think of perceiving as a complex of 'havings,' not a complex of 'havings' and 'doings.'
gloss: Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Out of my lean and low ability
I’ll lend you something: my having is not much;
I’ll make division of my present with you:
Hold, there’s half my coffer.
Your havings wasted by the scythe and spade—
Your rights and charters hobnail’d into slush—
gloss: A person's behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Good manners.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
countable
in-plural
obsolete
uncountable
Translations:
piper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.
Base: pipe
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: pipers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A musician who plays a pipe.
pos: noun
gloss: A bagpiper.
pos: noun
examples: At Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley, the sounding of train horns was followed by a lone piper playing When the Battle's Over.
gloss: A baby pigeon.
pos: noun
gloss: A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
pos: noun
gloss: A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
pos: noun
gloss: A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand.
pos: noun
gloss: A broken-winded hack horse.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
gloss: A person who smokes crack cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 2025, Rev. Yolanda E. Johnson, Dr. Viola J. Malone, Journey: Pain and Purpose
On one occasion after returning from vacation one of the 'pipers' (crack addicts) as they were called, was in my kitchen cooking. That was the last straw.
Related words: bagpiper
hornpiper
Derived words: drunk as a piper
hornpiper
pay the piper
Pied Piper
piper gurnard
piperly
sandpiper
uilleann piper
who pays the piper calls the tune
Translations:
lair
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
Etymology: From Middle English leir, leire, lair, lare, from Old English leġer (“couch, bed”), from Proto-Germanic *legrą, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.
Inflected forms:
form: lairs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lairs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lairing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: laired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: laired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
pos: noun
examples: O dainty dew, O morning dew / That gleamed in the world's first dawn, did you / And the sweet grass and manful oaks / Give lair and rest / To him who toadwise sits and croaks / His death-behest?
“Would you go into the dragon's lair, my peerless Wiglaf?”
gloss: A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
pos: noun
gloss: A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: ...Van Helsing stood up and said, "Now, my dear friends, we go forth to our terrible enterprise. Are we all armed, as we were on that night when first we visited our enemy's lair. Armed against ghostly as well as carnal attack?"
[H]e did a little scout work, and discovered the lair of that old woman.
gloss: A bed or resting place.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
examples: Then would I in Plenty's lap,
For the first time take a nap;
Falling back in easy lair,
Sweetly slumb'ring in my chair;
Wake ye, sleep ye, my hapless boy,
In this homeless house of care?
Lack ye the warmth of a mother's eye
On the cauldrife, lonely lair?
gloss: A grave; a cemetery plot.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: […] but few knew the reason, and some thought it was because the deceased were strangers, and had no regular lair. I dressed the two bonny orphans in the best mourning at my own cost […]
This is one of the 'lairs' of the Harknesses of Holestain and Haprig.
[…] I would purchase a lair in the Necropolis, and have wee Johnnie removed from his humble resting-place, and laid down [there].
We appreciate that this is a sensitive issue for lair owners and would like to assure them that the maintenance of the cemetery is carried out in a sensitive and dignified manner.
gloss: A group where pickup artists meet to discuss and practise seduction techniques.
pos: noun
gloss: To rest; to dwell.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: The lee-light that December gies
Was lairing in the wast,
Whan Christy wi' her oa claes,
Was boun' to dree the blast.
gloss: To lay down.
pos: verb
tags: UK
gloss: To bury.
pos: verb
tags: UK
Derived words: lairless
lairlike
Translations:
geep
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of goat + sheep.
Compound parts: goat
sheep
Inflected forms:
form: geeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheep–goat hybrid, an animal with DNA from a goat and from a sheep, whether produced artificially or by natural intermating.
pos: noun
Translations:
rattler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rattle
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 rattler
From rattle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: rattlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything that rattles.
pos: noun
gloss: A rattlesnake.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
examples: You watch your step walking out there on the mesa, because in warmer season, the rattlers are up and about, and it's their turf.
gloss: A freight train or, (chiefly UK), a passenger train.
pos: noun
examples: I'll lay you odds that this old rattler don't get into Shanghai on time.
gloss: Any decrepit or noisy vehicle, such as a cart, carriage or train.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A loud, inconsiderate talker.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
dated
gloss: A stunning blow.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
dated
examples: […] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing.
gloss: An impudent lie; a whopper.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
dated
Derived words: bead-rattler
diamondback rattler
jump the rattler
Murrumbidgee river rattler
rattler-jumper
rattler-jumping
red rattler
sabre-rattler
Translations:
rattlesnake
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rattle
English snake
English rattlesnake
From rattle + snake.
Inflected forms:
form: rattlesnakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rattle snake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.
pos: noun
examples: Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks.
The country ran shuttles and posted signs encouraging visitors to enjoy the display responsibly, but those precautions didn't prevent rattlesnake bites, twisted ankles, heat exhaustion, Instacelebs and other selfie-takers lying in or otherwise trampling the delicate blooms they'd come to see.
Generally not aggressive, rattlesnakes strike when threatened or deliberately provoked, but given room they will retreat. Most snake bites occur when a rattlesnake is handled or accidentally touched by someone walking or climbing. The majority of snakebites occur on the hands, feet and ankles.
Translations:
specter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle French spectre, from Latin spectrum (“appearance, apparition”). Doublet of spectrum.
Inflected forms:
form: specters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spectre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
English
Senses:
gloss: A ghostly apparition, a phantom.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.
Nevertheleſſe, they which ſhould ſee thoſe Iſles thus to moove in this manner, not knowing before that the ſame were naturall: they would entertaine many and diverſe apprehenſions in their fantaſie, & would imagine that they ſawe a thing very ſtrange and prodigious, and ſuch as did very neere approach to the nature of ſome Specter [translating spectre] and viſion.
gloss: A threatening mental image; an unpleasant prospect
pos: noun
tags: US
figuratively
examples: A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
Already, the specter of higher interest rates was causing the housing market to seize up.
Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday dismissed Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin for appointing to his cabinet a former lawyer who served jail time, raising the spectre of more political upheaval and a reset of the governing alliance.
Instead of three co-equal branches acting as a check on each other, power has become increasingly concentrated over the years in the White House – a trend that is now being supercharged under Mr. Trump in ways that, to critics, raise the specter of authoritarianism.
gloss: Any of certain species of dragonfly of the genus Boyeria, family Aeshnidae.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Any of various species of Asian danaid butterflies of the genus Idea, family Nymphalidae.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The large and handsome spectre-butterfly, Hestia durvillei; the pale-winged peacock butterfly, Drusilla catops; and the most brilliant and wonderful of the clear-winged moths, Cocytia durvillei, were especially interesting, as well, as several little "blues," equalling in brilliancy and beauty anything the butterfly world can produce.
Derived words: Brocken specter
Macleay's spectre
mountain specter
raise the specter
specter at the feast
specter bat
specter candle
specterlike
specter of the Brocken
specter shrimp
spectral
Translations:
Chechen
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian чечен- (čečen-), the root in чече́нец (čečénec, “a Chechen man”) or чече́нский (čečénskij, “Chechen (adjective)”).
Inflected forms:
form: Chechens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Nakh people of the northern Caucasus and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of Chechnyan: a resident of Chechnya.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Of or relating to the Chechen people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the Chechen language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Synonym of Chechnyan: of or relating to Chechnya, a Russian.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: Chechen Republic
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Checheno-Ingush
Translations:
broach
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *brokkos
Gaulish *brokkosbor.?
Vulgar Latin broccus
Vulgar Latin brocca
Old French brochebor.
Middle English broche
English broach
From Middle English broche, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, originally a feminine form of Latin broccus, perhaps ultimately of Gaulish origin (see Scottish Gaelic bròg). Doublet of brochure.
Inflected forms:
form: broaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: broaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: broached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: broached
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: How often has the broached barrel proved not to be for joy and heart effusion, but for duel and head-breakage.
gloss: To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.
gloss: To begin discussion about (something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.
Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask.
I have tried on several occasions to broach the subject of my love to Lys; but she will not listen.
THE POCKET ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF BRITISH STEAM LOCOMOTIVES. By O. S. Nock. Blandford Press. 18s.
Mr. Nock, he remarks in his preface, was "incredulous" when the idea of this book of 192 colour gravure illustrations of a representative collection of British steam locomotives from Locomotion to BR's Evening Star was broached to him.
Still, both [Kate] Spicer and [Anka] Radakovich think there are some subjects, even as the outrider of sexual openness, they can't broach.
Related words: brochure
Derived words: abroach
broachable
broacher
Translations:
kiki
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: In the sense "lesbian who is neither butch nor femme", sometimes said to mean "neither-nor" in some language; related to kai kai (“sexual activity between drag queens”); see that entry for more. In the sense "a gathering for gossiping and chit-chat", perhaps imitative of giggling.
Inflected forms:
form: kikis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ki-ki
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kikis
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kikiing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kiki-ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kikied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kikied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Let's have a kiki / I wanna have a kiki / Lock the doors tight / Let's have a kiki
Get on my knees and have a kiki with Jesus
gloss: A lesbian who is neither butch nor femme.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
derogatory
historical
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:kiki.
gloss: To meet with friends without any agenda or goals.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
examples: We spent a whole lot of time kiki'ing around—fooling around.
Went home, changed for my show, kikied with Bruce and walked over to the apartment for my weekly meeting and Sally was just walking into the building from Sirius.
“I still had my corporate job, so we would talk on GChat all day while I was at work,” says Olisa. (She’s still based in New York; Garner Valentine has since relocated to Georgia. Both are in their 30s.) “To the outside world, I was working diligently, but I was really kiki-ing with my friend.”
Translations:
stunner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
literature
martial-arts
media
military
politics
professional-wrestling
publishing
science-fiction
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stun
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 stunner
From stun + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: stunners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything that is stunning.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: Anything that is stunning.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: She's a runner, rebel and a stunner / On her merry way sayin', "Baby, what you gonna—?"
gloss: A professional wrestling maneuver in which an attacking wrestler applies a facelock to an opponent and falls to a seated position, forcing the opponent's jaw or neck to drop on the attacker's shoulder.
pos: noun
gloss: A pistol firing a beam capable of stunning an enemy.
pos: noun
examples: March holstered his pistol, reached into his coat, and drew out his own neural stunner, shifting the weapon to his right hand.
gloss: A person or machine that stuns an animal before slaughter.
pos: noun
Derived words: Dunner stunner
neurostunner
put the stunners on
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: нещо изумително
roman: nešto izumitelno
lang: Polish
word: rewelacja
lang: Polish
word: bajer
lang: Spanish
word: maravilla
lang: Finnish
word: namupala
lang: Irish
word: spéirbhean
lang: Irish
word: leadhb
lang: Portuguese
word: mulherão
lang: Portuguese
word: mulheraça
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كوزل
roman: güzel, gözel
broadsheet
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From broad + sheet.
Compound parts: broad
sheet
Inflected forms:
form: broadsheets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A newspaper having pages of standard dimensions (as opposed to a tabloid), especially one that carries serious treatment of news.
pos: noun
examples: He glanced across at Wani, who was screened above the knees by the raised pink broadsheet with its headlines about record share prices, record house prices.
gloss: In the format of a broadsheet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to a broadsheet or broadsheets.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: broadsheet journalism
Antonyms: tabloid
yellow journalism
Related words: above the fold
compact
Translations:
brooch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of broach.
Inflected forms:
form: brooches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brooches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brooching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brooched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brooched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
pos: noun
gloss: A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.
pos: noun
gloss: To adorn as with a brooch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Not the imperious show / Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall / Be brooch'd with me.
Derived words: broochlike
Luckenbooth brooch
Translations:
nome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French nome, from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “district”), from νέμω (némō, “to divide”). Doublet of nomos.
Inflected forms:
form: nomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece.
pos: noun
examples: Laconia is the southernmost nome in the Peloponnese.
gloss: A territorial division of ancient Egypt.
pos: noun
examples: Yet the part will be as the whole, and you will be the High Priest in this nome of Egypt.
Derived words: nomarch
Translations:
kitsune
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Japanese 狐 (kitsune, “fox”).
Inflected forms:
form: kitsune
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kitsunes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese fox spirit, often but not exclusively female, said to have powers such as shape-shifting, and whose power is symbolized by increase in number of tails.
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
examples: [A]ll personnel are to be hereby ordered to refer to her as a "Kumiho," and not a "Kitsune." Personnel asking what the difference is are to be reminded of the difference between a Cherokee Indian and a New Delhi Indian.
Translations:
tanuki
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 狸(たぬき) (tanuki, “raccoon dog”).
Inflected forms:
form: tanuki
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tanukis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tanooki
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A raccoon dog, Nyctereutes viverrinus.
pos: noun
examples: At my onboarding, I was told that one of GitHub's employees identified as a tanuki, a Japanese raccoon dog—this was fine.
gloss: A folkloric figure in the form of a tanuki, regarded as a shapeshifter and renowned for its enormous scrotum and testicles.
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
gloss: The joining of a living bonsai tree to a piece of dead wood for aesthetic effect.
pos: noun
Translations:
sac
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek σᾰ́κκος (sắkkos)bor.
Latin saccus
Old French sac
French sacbor.
English sac
Borrowed from French sac. Doublet of saccus, sack, saco, and sakkos.
Inflected forms:
form: sacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sacs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: saccing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sacked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sacced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sacced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
pos: noun
gloss: To sacrifice.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Kasparov sacked his queen early on in the game to gain a positional advantage against Kramnik.
I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon.
Translations:
nigh
Part of speech: adj
verb
adv
prep
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ-
Proto-Germanic *nēhwazder.
Proto-Germanic *nēhw
Proto-West Germanic *nāhw
Old English nēah
Middle English neygh
English nigh
Inherited from Middle English neygh, from Old English nēah, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw, from *nēhwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).
Inflected forms:
form: nigher
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more nigh
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: nighest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most nigh
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nighs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nighing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nighed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nighed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ny
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Near, close by.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
poetic
examples: The end is nigh!
Daybreak is drawing nigh.
For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
a. 1831, Ludovico Ariosto, William Stewart Rose (translator), Orlando Furioso, 2006, Echo Library, page 185,
He at his head took aim who stood most nigh;
By these and many histories more, it is most evident, that the more nigh salvation and deliverance approach, the more vehement is temptation and trouble.
The enemy, somewhat imboldened, draws nigher to the fort.
You then went to St. Andrews, the nighest ocean port.
The end is nigh (or at least it was supposed to be), but the Pacers in northern England kept plugging away providing a service while awaiting the much-delayed arrival of their replacements.
Who sends the waves that bring us nigh / Unto the shore, the rock of Christ?
gloss: Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.
pos: adj
examples: Ye […] are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
gloss: to draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: When the charnel-eyed Pale Horse has nighed
gloss: Almost, nearly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor.[…]It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.
Hell of a surprise in the seventh season premiere of Game Of Thrones. Arya Stark, fresh off a nigh Cersei-level ambush of the Frey household, comes upon a small campfire surrounded by fresh-faced red cloaks.
gloss: near; close to
pos: prep
examples: When the Moon is horned […] is it not ever nigh the Sun?
The cottage stood nigh the burn, in a little garden, with lilyoaks and grosart bushes lining the pathway.
Synonyms: near
Related words: near
neighbor
next
Derived words: nighen
nigh-hand
nigh on
nighness
Translations:
archbishop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: From Middle English erchebischop, archebischop, from Old English arċebisċop (“archbishop”), from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin archiepiscopus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιεπίσκοπος (arkhiepískopos), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “first, chief”) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπισκοπέω (episkopéō, “to watch over”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to examine”), equivalent to arch- + bishop.
Base: ἐπίσκοπος
Affixes: ἀρχι-
Inflected forms:
form: archbishops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: abp.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Abp.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)
pos: noun
examples: Thereupon I declared that I was a heretic and a barbarian—“Je suis hérétique et barbare,” I said, “and that these archbishops and cardinals and monsignors, and the rest of them, meant nothing at all to me.
He passed over several archbishops who would traditionally become cardinals to promote Gregory. He also moved Augustine Tolton, who died in 1897 after becoming the first African American priest, one step closer to sainthood.
One of those 19 candidates was Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, the archbishop of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008.
gloss: A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the bishop and the knight.
pos: noun
Related words: archbishopdom
archbishopric
archbishopship
archepiscopal
bishop
bishopric
episcopal
archdiocese
diocese
Excellency
Grace
prelate
primate
Derived words: archbishophood
Translations:
prolific
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: First use appears c. 1635. From French prolifique and its etymon Latin prōlificus, from prōlēs (“offspring”) + -ficus (“making”).
Inflected forms:
form: more prolific
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prolific
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: prolifick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
pos: adj
gloss: Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance.
pos: adj
examples: However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of Infanticide.
The most obvious beneficiary of the visitors' superiority was Frank Lampard. By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals. No other player has managed more than the Chelsea midfielder's 11 in World Cup qualification ties, with this a display to roll back the years.
A Chinese PhD student who is "one of the most prolific predators" in the UK has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 24 years.
gloss: Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.
pos: adj
gloss: Copious; plentiful; abundant.
pos: adj
examples: The prolific bird life around the Inlet was thinning out but grey rosellas and zebras and painted finches made the bush merry[.]
Synonyms: fertile
Derived words: antiprolific
hyperprolific
improlific
nonprolific
overprolific
prolificacy
prolifically
prolification
prolificity
prolificness
unprolific
Translations:
dossier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.
Inflected forms:
form: dossiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.
pos: noun
examples: For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.
Translations:
turnkey
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From turn + key.
Compound parts: turn
key
Inflected forms:
form: more turnkey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most turnkey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: turnkeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: turnkeys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: turnkeying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: turnkeyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: turnkeyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Ready to use without further assembly or test; supplied in a state that is ready to turn on and operate (typically refers to an assembly that is outsourced for manufacture).
pos: adj
examples: They wanted a turnkey solution for the entire system, but we could only provide the enclosure.
Third World countries no longer want to purchase nuclear projects on a turn-key basis; they want to receive advanced technical training as well.
He cautioned that the house “is not turnkey,” and that because it is “so unusual,” it may take a while to sell. But, he added, “It’s a joy to be selling a property with its history.”
gloss: A system that is supplied ready to switch on and operate.
pos: noun
examples: The hardware-software costs are packaged together. Turnkeys are either special purpose (e.g., only for one function such as libraries) or general purpose […]
gloss: A warder or jailer; a keeper of the keys in a prison.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition, / Which put him in mind of the long debate / On the Slave-trade abolition.
[…]they passed through an open door into a lobby, from which a heavy gate, opposite to that by which they had entered, and which was guarded by a stout turnkey with the key in his hand, led at once into the interior of the prison.
'Certainly not,' said the turnkey; and the first corroborated his statement.
gloss: To supply a turnkey product; to supply something fully assembled and ready to use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We can sell you all the parts, or we can turnkey the entire unit.
Derived words: underturnkey
Translations:
hornswoggle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown, 1829 US, jocular coinage like contemporary absquatulate. Presumably horns + waggle with humorous faux ablaut or combination with wobble (compare later woggle, 1923), perhaps inspired by lassoed steers trying to escape by moving their head.
Inflected forms:
form: hornswoggles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hornswoggling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hornswoggled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hornswoggled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To deceive or trick.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Don't let them hornswoggle you into buying anything you don't need.
gloss: nonsense; humbug
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
checkup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English check updeverb.
English checkup
Deverbal from check up.
Inflected forms:
form: checkups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: check-up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A routine visit to the doctor, dentist, or the like.
pos: noun
examples: The appointment was just for a checkup.
gloss: A routine inspection.
pos: noun
examples: I took my car in for an annual checkup.
Related words: physical
Derived words: checkup from the neck up
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пре́глед
roman: prégled
lang: Catalan
word: revisió mèdica
lang: Finnish
word: tarkastus
lang: French
word: check-up
lang: French
word: bilan de santé
lang: German
word: Kontrolle
lang: German
word: ärztliche Untersuchung
lang: German
word: Check-up
lang: Greek
word: τσεκάπ
roman: tsekáp
lang: Hungarian
word: kontrollvizsgálat
lang: Hungarian
word: kivizsgálás
lang: Irish
word: scrúdú sláinte
lang: Malayalam
word: പരിശോധന
roman: pariśōdhana
lang: Polish
word: wizyta kontrolna
lang: Polish
word: kontrola
lang: Polish
word: kontrolne badanie lekarskie
lang: Portuguese
word: check-up
lang: Portuguese
word: checkup
lang: Portuguese
word: checape
lang: Russian
word: осмо́тр
roman: osmótr
lang: Russian
word: медосмо́тр
roman: medosmótr
lang: Spanish
word: chequeo
lang: Spanish
word: control
lang: Turkish
word: sağlık yoklaması
lang: Vietnamese
word: khám bệnh
lang: Welsh
word: archwiliad
turncoat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A compound of turn + coat, reportedly derived from the sometime military practice of wearing uniform coats that were lined in material of a contrasting color, and which could be worn inside out to present a different appearance.
Inflected forms:
form: turncoats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: turn-coat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: turn coat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: turncoats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: turncoating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: turncoated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: turncoated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A traitor; one who turns against a previous affiliation or allegiance.
pos: noun
examples: But some will cry Turncoat, and rip up old stories, / How I always pretended to be for the tories: […]
Federal prosecutors say that in addition to turncoat witnesses, they are armed with secretly recorded conversations made in the Camden, N.J., office of Mr. Stanfa's lawyer, Salvatore Avena, who has also been indicted on racketeering charges.
The opposition members chanted slogans against the turncoats and termed the speaker’s attitude as partial. To them the speaker was promoting 'lotacracy' in the province, prompting them to chant 'go Speaker go', and 'lota speaker'.
gloss: To act as a turncoat; to betray
pos: verb
Translations: