yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
scapegoat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From scape + goat; coined by English biblical scholar and translator William Tyndale, interpreting Biblical Hebrew עֲזָאזֵל (“azazél”) (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from עֵז (ez, “goat”) and אוזל (ozél, “escapes”). First attested 1530. Compare English scapegrace, scapegallows.
Compound parts: scape
goat
Inflected forms:
form: scapegoats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scapegoats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scapegoating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scapegoated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scapegoated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
pos: noun
examples: And Aarõ caſt lottes ouer the .ij. gootes: one lotte for the Lorde, ãd another for a ſcapegoote.
[…]; alluding herein unto the heart of man, and the precious bloud of our Saviour; who was typified indeed by the Goat that was ſlain, and the ſcape Goat in the wilderneſſe;
gloss: Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
pos: noun
examples: He is making me a scapegoat for his own poor business decisions and the supply chain disruptions caused by the hurricane!
The new Secretary of State had been long sick of the perfidy and levity of the First Lord of the Treasury, and began to fear that he might be made a scapegoat to save the old intriguer who, imbecile as he seemed, never wanted dexterity where danger was to be avoided.
Corbett says Railtrack was under great pressure in the aftermath, as it was the scapegoat even though the signal had been working properly.
gloss: To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: People tend to fear and then to scapegoat ... groups which seem to them to be fundamentally different from their own.
They had been used for centuries to justify or rationalize the behavior of that status and conversely to scapegoat and blame some other category of people.
And I want to add, as we make these changes, we work together to improve this system, that our intention is not scapegoating and finger-pointing.
Then either the world or others or the self becomes the target for the human tendency to scapegoat.
The question we should be asking is: who benefits when migrants and refugees are scapegoated for anger about housing?
Synonyms: sacrificial lamb
escapegoat
fall guy
folk devil
goat
Joe Soap
patsy
scapegoat
whipping boy
Related words: dupe
Derived words: scapegoatish
Translations:
fairy-tale
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Denominal adjective of fairy tale.
Inflected forms:
form: fairytale
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a fairy-tale romance
Translations:
periphery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Ancient Greek περί (perí)
Ancient Greek περῐ- (perĭ-)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō
Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō)
Ancient Greek περιφέρω (periphérō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs)
Ancient Greek περιφερής (peripherḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.
Ancient Greek -ια (-ia)
Ancient Greek περιφέρεια (periphéreia)bor.
Latin peripheriabor.
Middle French peripheriebor.
English periphery
Borrowed from Middle French peripherie. Compare Middle English periferie (“one of three layers of atmosphere (lower, middle, and upper) believed to surround the Earth”), from the same origin, although the Modern English term most likely does not descend from it.
Inflected forms:
form: peripheries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
pos: noun
examples: The suburbs are a city's periphery.
Tumor location was concentrated in the macula and superonasal periphery in patients 13.2 months.
The phrase 'Imperial Manila' is used throughout the archipelago to denote the capital-heavy decision-making and the imposition of the will and culture of the political and economic centre on the peripheries.
gloss: A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces.
pos: noun
gloss: The more anomalous and infrequent aspects of a language, as opposed to the frequent and regular core aspects.
pos: noun
Antonyms: center
Related words: peripherad
peripheral
Derived words: left periphery
midperiphery
peripherolobular
semiperiphery
Translations:
fungi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fungī, from fungus + -ī (suffix forming the nominative or vocative plurals of most second-declension nouns ending in -us).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound.
pos: noun
Derived words: fungicolous
fungi imperfecti
fungiproof
fungisterol
fungitarian
fungivorous
Translations:
appendage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)péndeti
Proto-Italic *pendō
Latin pendō
Latin appendō
Old French apendrebor.
Middle English appenden
English append
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English appendage
From append + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: appendages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An external body part that projects from the body.
pos: noun
examples: The insect has a pair of sensory appendages.
bodily appendage
gloss: A natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism.
pos: noun
examples: The small building was added as an appendage to the main structure.
gloss: A part that is joined to something larger.
pos: noun
examples: He disliked being treated as a mere appendage to the committee.
Derived words: appendageal
appendaged
appendageless
appendagelike
appendagitis
hilar appendage
unappendaged
Translations:
fungo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).
Inflected forms:
form: fungos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fungoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fungos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fungoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fungoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fungoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
pos: noun
examples: The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up.
Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter aren’t going to China to […] hit fungoes to wide-eyed Chinese kids.
gloss: A fungo bat.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.
gloss: To take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
pos: verb
Derived words: fungo bat
Translations:
squalor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Latin squālor.
Inflected forms:
form: squalors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor.
bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes
We’re living in squalor
That’s the name of this house
This house is called squalor by all
There’s a door broken somewhere but I never can remember quite where.
Translations:
sluggish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slug
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English sluggish
From slug + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: sluggisher
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more sluggish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sluggishest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most sluggish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive
pos: adj
examples: a sluggish man
[I]f he leaves the School poſſeſs'd of a ſluggiſh indolent Diſpoſition, and of Learning rather forc'd upon him than choſen, it is probable he will forget what he brought thence; but if he be active, emulous and aſpiring, he will certainly find Time for Reading and Thinking; for tho' it be a homely, it is a true Saying, that where there is a Will, there is a Way.
And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect.
He helps us to understand the insignificant points which mark the rapid undercurrents of the seemingly sluggish soul of Khalid.
gloss: Slow; having little motion.
pos: adj
examples: Vp thou tame River, vvake; / And from the liquid limbes this ſlumber ſhake: / Thou drovvn'st thy ſelfe in inofficious ſleepe; / And theſe thy ſluggiſh vvaters ſeeme to creepe, / Rather than flovv.
We float upon a sluggish stream, / We ride no rapids mad, / While life is all a tempered dream / And every joy half sad.
The head of the North Tyne is reached at Deadwater, 36 miles from Hexham. The river has its source just on the English side of the Border, at the foot of Peel Fell, the most westerly spur of the Cheviots. At first it is a sluggish stream (hence the name Deadwater) but begins to flow more swiftly before it reaches Kielder.
[T]he stock of capital is necessarily a sluggish time series, while output is capable of making wide swings in short intervals[.]
gloss: Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert.
pos: adj
examples: Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself.
gloss: Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
pos: adj
gloss: Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow, or subnormal growth.
pos: adj
examples: Inflation has been rising despite a sluggish economy.
After an initial bounce back, the post-Covid Chinese economy has turned sluggish. Its property market - once a key driver of growth - is now mired in a credit crisis, exacerbating a domestic "debt bomb" that has ballooned from years of borrowing by local government and state-owned enterprises.
Derived words: sluggishly
sluggishness
sluggish schizophrenia
unsluggish
Translations:
slothful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sloth + -ful.
Base: sloth
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more slothful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most slothful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: slothfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lazy; idle; tending to sloth.
pos: adj
examples: He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
This Book will make a Travailer of thee, / If by its Counſel thou wilt ruled be; / It will direct thee to the Holy Land, / If thou wilt its Directions understand: / Yea, it will make the ſloathful, active be; / The Blind alſo, delightful things to ſee.
Translations:
logo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
sciences
Etymology: 1937, clipping of logogram or logotype.
Inflected forms:
form: logos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A visual symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of a company or organization.
pos: noun
examples: The unified colour palette of reds, blues, and yellows used throughout the signage matches that of the institution’s logo and letterhead.
Branding remains constant and TfL's roundel stays the dominant logo on trains and at stations.
gloss: An audio recording for the same purpose; a jingle.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: What about including a CD of your music or a copy of your audio logo/jingle in your promotional items […]
gloss: A single graphic which contains one or more separate elements.
pos: noun
gloss: An ensign, a badge of office, rank, or power.
pos: noun
gloss: A corporate customer.
pos: noun
examples: How many new logos did we close this quarter?
Derived words: logo 3
logoed
logo edit
logo editor
logo kid
logoless
logomania
logomark
slogo
sonic logo
Translations:
rabies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness, fury”). Doublet of rage.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
encephalitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From encephal- + -itis.
Base: encephal
Inflected forms:
form: encephalitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the brain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
racial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
gaming
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s-der.
Proto-Germanic *rēsōder.
Proto-West Germanic *rās
Old English rǣs
▲
Proto-Germanic *rēsō
Old Norse rásbor.
Middle English race
English race
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English racial
From race + -ial.
Inflected forms:
form: more racial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most racial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: racials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a race (or a people).
pos: adj
examples: the racial complexion
racial stereotypes
racial remarks
racial profiling
racial discrimination
From a musical point of view, the modern Iberian seems a fac-simile of the mediæval Frenchman. Barring out racial distinctions, they both live in an analogous environment.
Such extremes have always been characteristic of the barbarous northmen, and we may not be wrong in referring to racial causes for the solution of this problem of contrarieties otherwise inexplicable.
Coincidentally, support for race-conscious policies, such as affirmative action, financial reparations for slavery, and race-based government assistance, have reached record highs. In fact, by some measures, the racial liberalism of white Democrats and liberals has even surpassed that of their non-white counterparts.
gloss: A skill possessed by all characters of a certain race.
pos: noun
Translations:
regarding
Part of speech: prep
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, regard + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: regardings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Concerning, respecting.
pos: prep
examples: Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
gloss: The act by which something is regarded or observed.
pos: noun
examples: […] God Invisible by the assumption of His Manhood was laid open to the regardings of our sight.
[…] to his wearied mates, seeking repose within six inches of his ivory heel, such would have been the reverberating crack and din of that bony step, that their dreams would have been of the crunching teeth of sharks. But once, the mood was on him too deep for common regardings; and as with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast, Stubb, the odd second mate, came up from below […]
Translations:
concerning
Part of speech: adj
prep
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From concern + -ing. The adjective and preposition follow from the verb.
Base: concern
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more concerning
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most concerning
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: concernings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Causing concern; worrying.
pos: adj
examples: It's very concerning that our neighbour seems to be crying very loudly these days.
gloss: Important.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: So great and so concerning truth.
gloss: Regarding, respecting.
pos: prep
examples: Physically, everything is perfect, but concerning your mental state, you have some problems.
The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.
gloss: That which one is concerned in; one's business.
pos: noun
examples: We shall write to you, / As Time and our Concernings shall importune, / How it goes with us, and do look to know / What doth befall you here.
Synonyms: alarming
worrisome
Derived words: concerningly
concerningness
inconcerning
unconcerning
Translations:
rehash
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English hash
English rehash
From re- + hash.
Inflected forms:
form: rehashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rehashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rehashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rehashed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-hash
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: rehashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: re-hash
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I never did care for Sunday joint that was served up cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday, rissoled on Wednesday, and re-hashed on Thursday[.]
gloss: To repeat with minor variation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.
The CEO of the company only rehashed a speech for the news conference.
The general rehashed plans for the war.
gloss: To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let's not rehash what we did last night.
gloss: To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Something reworked, or made up from old materials.
pos: noun
examples: He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.
gloss: A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
pos: noun
Derived words: rehashable
rehasher
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: преработвам
roman: prerabotvam
lang: French
word: ressasser
lang: German
word: mehr oder minder wiederholen
lang: German
word: wiederaufwärmen
lang: German
word: verwursten
lang: Polish
word: odgrzewać
lang: Portuguese
word: refazer
lang: Portuguese
word: recauchutar
lang: Russian
word: переформулировать
roman: pereformulirovatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: rehacer
lang: Spanish
word: refundir
lang: Spanish
word: refreír
resentful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From resent + -ful.
Base: resent
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more resentful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most resentful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged.
pos: adj
gloss: Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.
pos: adj
examples: ‘Them bloody chaps 'ave a cushy job,’ said little Martlow with resentful envy. ‘Just fly over the line, take a peek at ol' Fritz, and as soon as a bit o' shrapnel comes their way, fuck off 'ome jildy, toot sweet.’
Is it serving Hashem to be machmir and resentful, rather than adhere to the letter of the law and be relaxed and happy?
Derived words: resentfully
resentfulness
unresentful
Translations:
reservoir
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French réservoir (“collection place”) (fig.), réservoir (“storehouse”) (lit.). in turn from French réserver (“to reserve, keep”).
Inflected forms:
form: reservoirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reservoirs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reservoiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reservoired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reservoired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A place where anything is kept in store.
pos: noun
examples: Notwithstanding the way in which she had, in what she termed "the delicacy of her feelings," contrived to pour the receipts of the fancy fair into one reservoir, the duke and several other persons complimented Lady Anne very much on the superior beauty and value of her articles,...
The vehicle is fitted with Westinghouse electro-pneumatic brake, and also a Northey exhauster with vacuum chamber and auxiliary reservoir adjacent to the guard's compartment for use when hauling vehicles equipped with vacuum brake gear.
Within a printer cartridge, ink is typically stored in an ink reservoir and is deposited onto media through a print head.
gloss: A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
pos: noun
gloss: A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
pos: noun
gloss: A supply or source of something.
pos: noun
examples: To replace them and also to provide a reservoir for relief trains, a certain amount of spare stock must be kept on hand.
The goal is to draw on reservoirs of strength that defy rational thought, so you can wrench your poor, obsessed spirit away from work and orient it toward stuff that matters.
gloss: A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.
pos: noun
examples: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
gloss: A "black box" component that receives an input signal to be read out and mapped by another process, as part of reservoir computing.
pos: noun
gloss: To store or keep (something) in or as in a reservoir.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: reserve
Derived words: air reservoir
au reservoir
feeder reservoir
oil reservoir
Ommaya reservoir
petroleum reservoir
receiving reservoir
reservoir computer
reservoir control
reservoirful
Translations:
aqueduct
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂
Proto-Italic *akʷā
Latin aquae
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Latin dūcō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin ductus
Latin aquaeductusbor.
English aqueduct
Adapted borrowing from Latin aquaeductus (“conveyance of water”), from aqua (“water”) + dūcō (“to lead”, “to bring”); compare the French aqueduc.
Inflected forms:
form: aqueducts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aquaeduct
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: aquæduct
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.
pos: noun
gloss: A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially an ancient structure.
pos: noun
examples: All the years he’d been down there in the traffic he’d taken this aqueduct for just another bridge, nothing to tell you that canal boats and waterfowl were being carried along above your head.
gloss: A structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct.
pos: noun
Related words: ecoduct
viaduct
Derived words: aqueductal
aqueduct of Sylvius
mesencephalic aqueduct
periaqueduct
Sylvian aqueduct
Translations:
roughly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rough
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English roughly
From rough + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: roughlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more roughly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: roughliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most roughly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness.
pos: adv
examples: They treated the prisoners roughly [...] slashing pitilessly with their whips to drive them as wretched animals before them.
gloss: Unevenly or irregularly.
pos: adv
gloss: Without precision or exactness; imprecisely but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.
pos: adv
examples: Satanism can be divided, roughly, into two branches: the Luciferians and the Palladists.
Of the roughly 400 emerging infectious diseases that have been identified since 1940, more than 60% are zoonotic: ie they came from animals. Throughout history this has been common.
Derived words: roughly speaking
Translations:
quim
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps an alteration of queme. The English Dialect Dictionary has a citation of "quim and cosh" from 1723 which it glosses as "intimate and familiar". Compare also quaint, cunt. Derivation from Welsh cwm (“hollow”) is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds".
Inflected forms:
form: quims
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more quim
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most quim
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The female genitalia; the vulva.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
examples: For one day, when amusing herself with this whim
The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim.
Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims?
As for whores—they are sometimes daughters of fine homes peddling their quim and quiff for a thumbnail of cocaine or a tot of rot-gut whiskey.
When she's done he licks the last few drops from his lips. More cling, golden clear, to the glossy hairs of her quim.
Her quim grew wet, ready to welcome it.
gloss: An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
vulgar
examples: (to Black Widow) In every way, [Clint Barton] knows your fear! And then he'll wake…to see his good work…When he screams, I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you mewling quim!
gloss: Affectedly nice, prim.
pos: adj
tags: Ulster
gloss: Moving with ease and precision.
pos: adj
tags: Ulster
Related words: queem
Translations:
Durex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Condom brand name: 1929, from durability, reliability, excellence.
Inflected forms:
form: Durexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A condom.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
examples: All I know is that you could, if you wanted to, find the answers to all sorts of difficult questions buried in that terrible war-torn interregnum between the first pubic hair and the first soiled Durex.
Pocket full of Durex, body full of Mandrex / Are we gonna have sex? Will you wear your knee socks?
gloss: Adhesive tape.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
Translations:
greedy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English gredy, from Anglian Old English grēdiġ (“greedy, hungry, eager”) (cognate West Saxon form grǣdiġ), from Proto-Germanic *grēdagaz (“hungry”), from Proto-Germanic *grēdaz, *grēduz, *grēdô (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-. Equivalent to greed + -y.
Cognate with Old Saxon grādag (“greedy”), Dutch graag (“gladly, willingly”), Old High German grātag (“greedy”), Danish grådig (“greedy”), Norwegian Bokmål grådig (“greedy”) (from Old Norse gráðigr (“greedy”), gráði (“greed, hunger”)), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (grēdags, “hungry”). Sanskrit गृद्धि (gṛddhi, “greed”) is a false cognate.
Base: greed
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: greedier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: greediest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”
gloss: Prone to overeat.
pos: adj
gloss: Tending to match as much text as possible.
pos: adj
examples: This regular expression performs a greedy match.
gloss: That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.
pos: adj
gloss: Greedily sought or pursued.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Suppoſe they be in number infinit,
Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline,
All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles: […]
Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats
And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.
Synonyms: acquisitive
avaricious
cormorant
covetous
edacious
esurient
grasping
greedy
miserable
piggish
miserly
rapacious
selfish
sordid
sharp-set
voracious
Derived words: be fearful when others are greedy
be greedy when others are fearful
greed
greedily
greediness
greedy algorithm
greedyguts
greedy property
overgreedy
ungreedy
Translations:
douce
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English douce, from Old French dolz, dous, Middle French doux, douce, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”). Doublet of dolce, doux, and dulce.
Inflected forms:
form: doucer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: doucest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sweet; nice; pleasant.
pos: adj
examples: Beyond the bed stood the woman. Dark and pale, aged about twenty-one . . . his mother, Mary de Bohun. Death had stolen none of her douce beauty and sweetness.
The sun broke through the cloods, and the douce song o’ a laverock filled me wi’ gledness.
gloss: Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober.
pos: adj
tags: dialectal
examples: The bookseller, douce man, had seen too many eccentric customers to be shocked by the vehemence of his questioner.
what would you say of a man with plenty of silver that bided all by his lone and made his own bed and did his own baking when he might have had a wife to make him douce and brave?
If Fabre, for example, were elected to the Academy tomorrow, you would see his lust for social revolution turning overnight into the most douce and debonair conformity.
So what strong lord of misrule can preside in this douce, commercially respectable, late 19th century city where even religious fanaticism reinforces un adventurous mediocrity?
Related words: flute-douce
powder-douce
Derived words: doucely
douceness
Translations:
ansible
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Coined by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin in 1966 in her novella Rocannon's World; Le Guin states that she derived it from answerable . The word was further spread by its adoption into other science fiction worlds, including by Orson Scott Card in Ender's Game (1986), Vernor Vinge in The Blabber (1988) and Dan Simmons in Hyperion (1989).
Inflected forms:
form: ansibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hypothetical device that enables users to communicate instantaneously across great distances; that is, a faster-than-light communication device.
pos: noun
examples: “You remember the ansible, the machine I showed you in the ship, which can speak instantly to other worlds, with no loss of years– […] ”
“An ansible would theoretically be powered by subatomic particles that have undergone quantum entanglement, which utilizes Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance', allowing the alteration of one particle to instantaneously alter the state of its paired particle. […] ”
“[…] The master ansible is there, in contact with all our invasion fleet; the ships are all working, ready to fight. […]”
Ky had allotted two hours here, time to strip the news from the ansible, share it, even discuss it, but she didn’t plan to have everyone clustered and vulnerable.
Translations:
instantaneously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English instantaneous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English instantaneously
From instantaneous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without any delay; in an instantaneous manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!
Under the guise of being “online” and capable of disseminating news instantaneously (known colloquially as “retweeting”), being active on Twitter, for media workers, gives the effect of fulfilling one’s occupational duty as well as all the parts of professional upkeep that, in the physical world, involve being in the right rooms, overhearing the right things, and more or less maintaining appearances.
Translations:
instantaneous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin īnstāntāneus, from Latin īnstantem.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Occurring, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This instantaneous motion is supposed by you, to be infinitely swift.
However, no lovers in romance ever cemented a more inſtantaneous friendſhip.
The colour now rushed into Elizabeth's cheeks in the instantaneous conviction of its being a letter from the nephew, instead of the aunt; [...]
I walk always with my right hand closed round the india-rubber ball which I have in my trouser pocket. The pressing of this ball actuates a detonator inside the flask I carry in my pocket. It's the principle of the pneumatic instantaneous shutter for a camera lens.
The penis is the perfectly obvious and natural symbol of instantaneous time.
He said that the bullet went through her head, severed her spine and death would have been almost instantaneous.
Antonyms: delayed
gradual
nonimmediate
noninstantaneous
slow
Translations:
naan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi नान (nān) / Urdu نان (nān), from Classical Persian نان (nān), from Middle Persian LHMA (nān, “bread, food”).
Inflected forms:
form: naan
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: naans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.
pos: noun
Translations:
borra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: leafy matter found in wax
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] continuously discharging borra from said zone as a solid, removing the water from said slurry and mechanically recovering solid wax.
Translations:
gat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.
Inflected forms:
form: gats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A Gatling gun.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
gloss: Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
pos: noun
examples: You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.
Goin' off on a motherfucker like that
With a gat that's pointed at yo ass
It'll make you drop to your knees 'cause you realize, that a gat'll make any nigga civilized.
I never thought it could happen, this rappin' stuff
I was too used to packin' gats and stuff
Pimp pulled out his gat and let it hang in his hand. His message was clear.
gloss: To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: He in a black suit in a coffin, gatted by a junkie for his fake Rolex watch at a taco stand on Western.
Vance's death scene would have a racy romantic glamour, sort of like Dillinger gatted at the Biograph, Pretty Boy slain in the cornfield, Bonnie and Clyde ambushed in their Ford Roadster.
Fact I was chillin' with Notorious BIG when he got gatted. It was a^([sic]) accident. Biggie got in front of my Glock when I was bustin' slugs at some mothaf***a.
Translations:
jokes
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more jokes
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jokes
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Really good.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
examples: this thing is so jokes...i think it would be wack if someone responded to this.. but plz do cause that would be, like, some cool shit.
Andrew VS Neil and Mike is totally jokes! I love it when Andrew gets pissed, lol. It's so cool!
“Nah, fuck it. I've got a condom. It'll be jokes.”
Dappy's new tune is jokes, in a good way. Thoroughly entertaining and insightful which is more than I can say for most things on the radio.
gloss: funny or entertaining.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
examples: Man, that video is bare jokes!
Translations:
whomp
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of whip, similar to whup.
Inflected forms:
form: whomps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whomping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whomped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whomped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hit extremely hard.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: If you don’t cut that out, I’m going to whomp you so hard your head will spin!
Other sources are less committal, saying only that Celts were (a) the ancient warrior people who whomped the Picts, etc., […]
Translations:
rosewood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: A compound of rose + wood, originally so named because of the rose-scented aromatic oil derived from it; applied in later senses on account of these woods’ predominantly reddish-brown colour.
Compound parts: rose
wood
Inflected forms:
form: rosewoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra, a Brazilian tree in the legume family, which has a sweet smell.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several dozen woods, resembling that of Dalbergia nigra in some respect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, in the laurel family, with fragrant wood from which an essential oil is distilled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Wood and plant of Pterocarpus spp., for example African rosewood or mukula or Burmese rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus, syn. Pterocarpus santalinus).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: African rosewood
Australian rosewood
bastard rosewood
Burmese rosewood
Chinese rosewood
Dominica rosewood
East India rosewood
East Indian rosewood
fragrant rosewood
Honduras rosewood
India rosewood
Jamaica rosewood
New Guinea rosewood
New South Wales rosewood
north Indian rosewood
Translations:
impeach
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English empechen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman empecher, from Old French empeechier (“to hinder”), from Latin impedicāre (“to fetter”). Cognate with French empêcher (“to prevent”).
Inflected forms:
form: impeaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: impeaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: impeached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: impeached
pos: verb
tags: past
form: empeach
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To hinder, impede, or prevent.
pos: verb
examples: These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land.
I was afraid the same defluxion of Salt Rheum which fell from my Temples into my Throat in Oxford, and distilling upon the Uvula, impeached my Utterance a little to this Day
gloss: To bring a legal proceeding against a public official.
pos: verb
examples: President Clinton was impeached by the House in November 1998, but since the Senate acquitted him, he was not removed from office.
gloss: To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.
pos: verb
gloss: To demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same person, usually one taken during deposition.
pos: verb
Derived words: disimpeach
impeachable
impeacher
impeachment
impeachy
unimpeached
Translations:
Mohammedan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Mohammed + -an, from the earlier form Mahometan, coined in the 17th century.
Base: Mohammed
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Mohammedans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Muhammadan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Mahometan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Mahomedan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Mahommedan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Muhammedan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Mohamedan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Muhamedan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Mohametan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Mahommetan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Mohammetan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Moohummudan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Muhammadan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Mahometan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Mahomedan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Mahommedan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Muhammedan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Mohamedan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Muhamedan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Mohametan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Mahommetan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Mohammetan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Moohummudan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Muslim.
pos: noun
examples: MOSQUE (Fr. mosquée, from Sp. mezquita, from Ar. masjid, temple, from sajada, to prostrate one's self, to pray). A Mohammedan house of prayer and worship. Examples of these buildings are found wherever the Mohammedan faith has prevailed, from Spain to India and Turkestan.
Mohammedan prisoners shall be allowed to observe the fast of Ramadan and during the fast shall be required to labour at such reduced task as the Medical Officer considers proper.
gloss: Muslim, Islamic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: At the principal stations there are also separate Hindu and Mohemmedan refreshment rooms, and some mail trains have compartments reserved for Indian tea and sweetmeat vendors.
gloss: Relating to Mohammed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: Mohammedan blue
Mohammedanism
Translations:
internationalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: Etymology tree
English international
English -ization
English internationalization
From international + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: internationalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: internationalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: i18n
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The conversion of something in order to make it international.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Before the union of the Scottish Crown with that of England, it had for a brief period been united with that of France. On this occasion, a complete legal internationalization was effected.
I must say that the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce looks upon this step towards international coinage as part of an internationalization of the weights, measures, and coins.
gloss: The act or process of making a product suitable for international markets, typically by making text messages easily translatable and ensuring support of non-Latin character sets, languages, and regions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: globalization
localization
Translations:
fragile
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French fragile, from Latin fragilis, formed on frag-, the root of frangere (“to break”). Cognate with fraction, fracture and doublet of frail.
Inflected forms:
form: fragiler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more fragile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fragilest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most fragile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fragiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Easily broken, not sturdy; of delicate material.
pos: adj
examples: She caught the fragile vase before it could shatter on the floor.
The chemist synthesizes a fragile molecule.
gloss: Readily disrupted or destroyed.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The UN tries to maintain the fragile peace process in the region.
gloss: Feeling weak or easily disturbed as a result of illness.
pos: adj
tags: UK
gloss: Thin-skinned or oversensitive.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: He is a very fragile person and gets easily depressed.
gloss: Something that is fragile.
pos: noun
Synonyms: breakable
delicate
destructible
flimsy
fragile
frail
frailsome
frangible
slim
tenuous
Antonyms: antifragile
durable
indestructible
unbreakable
unfragile
Related words: fractal
fraction
fractional
fracture
fragility
frail
frailty
frangible
rickety
vulnerable
docile
obstinate
weak
Derived words: fragilely
fragile masculinity
fragileness
fragile X syndrome
fragilization
fragilize
hyperfragile
nonfragile
superfragile
ultrafragile
unfragile
warmblood fragile foal syndrome
Translations:
ennui
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der.
Proto-Italic *odjom
Latin odium
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Late Latin inodiāre
Old French enuier?
Old French enui
French ennuiubor.
English ennui
Unadapted borrowing from French ennui, from Old French enui (“annoyance”), from enuier (modern French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiō, from Latin in odiō (“hated”). Doublet of annoy.
Inflected forms:
form: ennuis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ennuis
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ennuying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ennuied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ennuied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ennuyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ennuyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There have always been individuals who toy with the political extremes out of a sort of high-class ennui.
gloss: To make bored or listless; to weary.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
pension
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From Middle English pencioun, pensioun, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin pēnsiō (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendō (“to weigh”). Doublet of pensione.
Inflected forms:
form: pensions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pensions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pensioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pensioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pensioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes.
pos: noun
examples: Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.
gloss: A wage or fee.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
pos: noun
gloss: A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To grant a pension to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To force (someone) to retire on a pension.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: rent
Derived words: full pension
old age pension
outpension
pensionary
pension book
pensionee
pensioneering
pensioner
pension fund
pension house
pensionless
pension plan
preserved pension
top-hat pension
pensionable
Translations: