yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
aunt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English aunte, from Anglo-Norman aunte, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (“father's sister”). Displaced native Middle English modrie (“aunt”) (from Old English mōdriġe (“maternal aunt”); compare Old English faþu, faþe (“paternal aunt”)). The digraph ⟨au⟩ representing /æ ~ ɑː/ instead of the expected /ɔː/ is irregular, and has not been conclusively explained (compare launch, which contains /ɑː/ in some UK dialects).
Inflected forms:
form: aunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
pos: noun
examples: As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
gloss: The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
pos: noun
tags: endearing
gloss: Any elderly woman.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A procuress or bawd.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: I saw neither hope of his reclaiming, nor comfort in his being; and was it not then better bestowed upon his uncle than upon one of his aunts?—I need not say bawd, for every one knows what aunt stands for in the last translation.
Synonyms: auntie
aunty
auntyji
naunt
Antonyms: uncle
niece
nephew
Related words: tante
materteral
Derived words: agony aunt
agony auntie
agony aunty
auntcest
auntdom
Aunt Edna
Aunt Emma
Aunt Flo
aunt fucker
aunthood
aunticide
Auntie
auntie
aunty
Auntie Beeb
aunting
aunt-in-law
auntish
Aunt Jane
Aunt Jemima
auntless
auntlike
auntly
Aunt Minnie
aunt nell
auntness
Aunt Sally
auntship
Aunt Thomasina
auntyish
auntyji
Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt
co-aunt
cousin-aunt
double aunt
grandaunt
great-aunt
great-grandaunt
half aunt
if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle
if my uncle had tits, he'd be my aunt
kopi auntie
kopi aunty
maiden-auntish
maiden-auntishness
maternal aunt
maternal half aunt
mine aunt
my aunt
my aunt Fanny
my giddy aunt
my sainted aunt
naunt
paternal aunt
paternal half aunt
please excuse my dear Aunt Sally
second aunt
stepaunt
step-aunt
summon auntie
uncle or aunt
wine aunt
wouldn't call the Queen my aunt
Translations:
nephew
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English nevew, neveu (“nephew, grandson”), from Old French neveu, from Latin nepos, nepōtem, from Proto-Italic *nepōts (“nephew, grandson”), whence also French neveu, Italian nipote. Displaced or absorbed the inherited English neve (“nephew, grandson, male cousin”), from Middle English neve, from Old English nefa, from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew, grandson”), whence Dutch neef, German Neffe. All ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *népōts (“grandchild, sister's son”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian nećak, Irish nia, Persian نوه (nave). Doublet of neve.
Spelt with -ph- by readaptation to Latin nepos since the 15th century, which later triggered the spelling pronunciation with /f/.
Inflected forms:
form: nephews
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A son of one's sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either a son of one's brother (fraternal nephew) or a son of one's sister (sororal nephew).
pos: noun
gloss: A son of one's cousin or cousin-in-law
pos: noun
gloss: A son of one's child.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Hir father many a time and oft would say my daughter deere,
Of Nephewes thou my debtour art, their Graundsires heart to chéere.
Related words: nepotism
neve
niece
nift
Derived words: cardinal nephew
cardinal-nephew
grandnephew
great-great-nephew
great-nephew
half nephew
half-nephew
nephew fucker
nephew-in-law
nephewish
nephewless
nephewly
nephewship
nevvy
niefling
step-nephew
stepnephew
uterine nephew
Welsh nephew
Translations:
niece
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English nece (“niece, granddaughter”), from Old French nece (“niece, granddaughter”) (Modern French nièce (“niece”)) from Late Latin neptia, representing Latin neptis (“granddaughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *néptih₂ (“granddaughter, niece”). Doublet of nift.
Inflected forms:
form: nieces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").
pos: noun
examples: My niece just celebrated her 15th birthday.
gloss: A daughter of one’s cousin or cousin-in-law
pos: noun
Synonyms: nift
Antonyms: nephew
aunt
uncle
Related words: dad
mom
brother
sister
grandfather
grandmother
cousin
step-
Derived words: grandniece
great-niece
half niece
niece fucker
niece-in-law
nieceless
niecely
nieceship
niefling
step-niece
stepniece
Translations:
in-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from -in-law.
Inflected forms:
form: in-laws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inlaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A relative by marriage (or through affinity).
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
often
examples: Louie: 'Neither boiling nor baking can diminish this creature's overpowering musky scent. Only suitable for serving to unpleasant in-laws.'
gloss: Sometimes specifically a parent-in-law of one's child, for which the dedicated terms co-mother-in-law, co-father-in-law are rare.
pos: noun
Derived words: co-in-law
-in-law
in-lawhood
in-law suite
Translations:
father-in-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fader in lawe, fadyr-in-lay, fader yn lawe, equivalent to father + -in-law.
Base: father
Affixes: -in-law
Inflected forms:
form: fathers-in-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: father-in-laws
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
nonstandard
plural
form: father in law
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One's spouse's father.
pos: noun
gloss: A stepfather.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: `Yes,` replied Snawley. `The fact is, I am not their father, Mr Squeers. I'm only their father-in-law.`
Related words: brother-in-law
daughter-in-law
mother-in-law
sister-in-law
son-in-law
Derived words: co-father-in-law
stepfather-in-law
Translations:
mother-in-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English moder in lawe; equivalent to mother + -in-law.
Base: mother
Affixes: -in-law
Inflected forms:
form: mothers-in-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mother-in-laws
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: The mother of one's spouse.
pos: noun
examples: For I am come to ſet a man at variance* againſt his father, ⁊ the daughter againſt her mother, and the daughter in law againſt her mother in law.
Odontophobia, or the fear of dental work, seems equally plausible, as does pentheraphobia - fear of the mother-in-law.
gloss: A mother-in-law apartment.
pos: noun
gloss: A mother-in-law sandwich.
pos: noun
gloss: A stepmother.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Do but consider, my dear Mr. Dashwood, how excessively comfortable your mother-in-law and her daughters may live on the interest of seven thousand pounds,
gloss: A spicy Caribbean sauce made with peppers, carrots, onions, lime juice, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: ma-in-law
mom-in-law
mum-in-law
saas
shviger
Related words: brother-in-law
daughter-in-law
father-in-law
sister-in-law
son-in-law
Derived words: monster-in-law
stepmother-in-law
mother-in-law apartment
mother-in-law's cushion
mother-in-law door
mother-in-law language
mother-in-law sandwich
mother-in-law style
co-mother-in-law
Translations:
son-in-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sone in lawe; equivalent to son + -in-law.
Base: son
Affixes: -in-law
Inflected forms:
form: sons-in-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: son-in-laws
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
nonstandard
plural
form: soninlaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: The husband of one's child.
pos: noun
examples: 12 ¶ And the men said vnto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? sonne in law, and thy sonnes, and thy daughters, and whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring them out of this place.
13 For we will destroy this place, because the crie of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD: and the LORD hath sent vs to destroy it.
14 And Lot went out, and spake vnto his sonnes in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get yee out of this place: for the LORD wil destroy this citie: but hee seemed as one that mocked, vnto his sonnes in law.
A man in Salvage, N.L., is being called a 'miracle man' by some residents in the community for lifting a vehicle off his son-in-law, but he says he's no hero.
Translations:
daughter-in-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English doghter in lawe; equivalent to daughter + -in-law.
Base: daughter
Affixes: -in-law
Inflected forms:
form: daughters-in-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daughter-in-laws
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: The wife of one's child.
pos: noun
examples: For I am come to ſet a man at variance* againſt his father, ⁊ the daughter againſt her mother, and the daughter in law againſt her mother in law.
They discovered Weller had two daughters and a daughter-in-law in the same cemetery.
And we can watch how that plays out as Trump attempts to get his daughter-in-law, Lara, into the U.S. Senate.
Translations:
non
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A non-Muslim citizen.
pos: noun
tags: Malaysia
slang
Translations:
rite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.
Inflected forms:
form: rites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A religious custom.
pos: noun
gloss: A prescribed behavior.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: It was the capable manager's long-established custom to escort Mrs Pridger to a theatre once a week, and Saturday evening had come to be the occasion of this rite.
But he had to perform the rites of hospitality, had to behave politely to his ally.
Related words: ritual
Derived words: bedrite
funeral rite
Latin rite
morning rite
riteless
ritely
rite of passage
water rite
Translations:
wing
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English winge, wenge, from Old Norse vængr ("wing of a flying animal, wing of a building"; compare vængi (“ship's cabin”)), from Proto-Germanic *wēingijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”), thus related to wind.
Cognate with Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish vinge (“wing”), Elfdalian waingg (“wing”), Faroese vongur (“wing”), Icelandic vængur (“wing”), Norwegian Nynorsk veng (“wing”).
Replaced native Middle English fither (from Old English fiþre, from Proto-Germanic *fiþriją), which merged with Middle English fether (from Old English feþer, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō). More at feather.
Inflected forms:
form: wings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: winging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: winged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: winged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wung
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
participle
past
form: wung
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
past
Senses:
gloss: To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
gloss: To travel swiftly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He had pulled up so expertly that the man escaped, so smoothly that not a passenger was jarred, and now he sat with a dazed and vacant expression on his face, leaning forward on his steering wheel, while caustic inquiry and retort winged unheeded up and down the line behind him.
gloss: To add a wing (extra part) to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I lost all my notes I'd made, so was partially winging the meeting.
gloss: To throw.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To furnish with wings.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ⁠Deep folly! yet that this could be—
⁠That I could wing my will with might
⁠To leap the grades of life and light,
And flash at once, my friend, to thee: […]
gloss: To traverse by flying.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: импровизирам
roman: improviziram
lang: Finnish
word: innostua
lang: French
word: improviser
lang: German
word: improvisieren
lang: Interlingua
word: improvisar
lang: Portuguese
word: improvisar
lang: Spanish
word: improvisar
Thai
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai ไทย (tai). Doublet of Tai and Dai.
Inflected forms:
form: more Thai
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Thai
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Thai
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Thais
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Thailand.
pos: adj
examples: A group of Thai researchers found the spider during an expedition to Phang-Nga province in southern Thailand to research the diversity and distribution of tarantulas in the country.
gloss: A person living in or coming from Thailand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The Bangkok government indicated real concern over the developments in Communist China’s Yunnan province. Thai officials were afraid that Sibsongpanna would be a center where pro-Communist Thai in Southeast Asia would go and where subversive agitation could be directed against outside legitimate governments.
gloss: A domestic cat of a particular breed descended from cats of Thailand and somewhat resembling a Siamese.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Thai cuisine; traditional Thai food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
quadruple
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rail-transport
railways
skating
sports
transport
Etymology: From Middle English quadruple, from Latin quadruplus. Can be analyzed as quadri- + -ple.
Base: quadri-
Affixes: -ple
Inflected forms:
form: quadruples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quadrupling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quadrupled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quadrupled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: quadruples
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.
gloss: To multiply by four.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Quadrupling four gives sixteen.
gloss: To increase by a factor of four.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.
Overall, consumer spending on fast tech has quadrupled to £11.6bn since 2023, surveys carried out for Material Focus suggested.
gloss: To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway.
pos: verb
examples: On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines.
Quadrupling the short remaining stretch of three-track railway north of Rugby, left over by the turn of the century modernisation, is a possibility that could be pursued.
A long-term aspiration is to quadruple the cross-country route between Peterborough and Werrington Junction, removing any conflict between trains on the Spalding and Leicester lines.
gloss: Something that is four times the usual number, amount, size, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A figure-skating jump with four revolutions in the air.
pos: noun
Antonyms: quarter
Related words: single
solo
double
twofold
triple
threefold
quadruple
fourfold
quintuple
pentuple
fivefold
loner
singleton
monad
pair
couple
twosome
duo
dyad
trio
threesome
triad
troika
foursome
quartet
tetrad
fivesome
quintet
pentad
only one
singlet
twin
one of two
doublet
triplet
one of three
quadruplet
one of four
quintuplet
pentuplet
one of five
sextuple
hextuple
sixfold
septuple
heptuple
sevenfold
octuple
eightfold
ninefold
nonuple
tenfold
decuple
sixsome
sextet
hexad
sevensome
septet
heptad
eightsome
octet
octad
ninesome
nonet
ennead
tensome
decet
decad
sextuplet
hextuplet
one of six
one of seven
septuplet
heptuplet
octuplet
one of eight
one of nine
nonuplet
one of ten
decuplet
elevenfold
undecuple
hendecuple
twelvefold
duodecuple
thirteenfold
tredecuple
a hundredfold
centuple
multiple
elevensome
twelvesome
thirteensome
hundredsome
one of eleven
undecuplet
hendecuplet
one of twelve
duodecuplet
one of thirteen
tredecuplet
one of a hundred
centuplet
one of many
multiplet
Derived words: quadruplet
Translations:
quadruplet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quadruple
English -et
English quadruplet
From quadruple + -et.
Inflected forms:
form: quadruplets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of four, particularly
pos: noun
gloss: A set of four, particularly
pos: noun
gloss: One of a group of four, particularly one of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
pos: noun
gloss: A cycle for carrying four riders, arranged so that all the riders can assist in the propulsion.
pos: noun
Synonyms: quartet
Related words: single
solo
double
twofold
triple
threefold
quadruple
fourfold
quintuple
pentuple
fivefold
loner
singleton
monad
pair
couple
twosome
duo
dyad
trio
threesome
triad
troika
foursome
quartet
tetrad
fivesome
quintet
pentad
only one
singlet
twin
one of two
doublet
triplet
one of three
quadruplet
one of four
quintuplet
pentuplet
one of five
sextuple
hextuple
sixfold
septuple
heptuple
sevenfold
octuple
eightfold
ninefold
nonuple
tenfold
decuple
sixsome
sextet
hexad
sevensome
septet
heptad
eightsome
octet
octad
ninesome
nonet
ennead
tensome
decet
decad
sextuplet
hextuplet
one of six
one of seven
septuplet
heptuplet
octuplet
one of eight
one of nine
nonuplet
one of ten
decuplet
elevenfold
undecuple
hendecuple
twelvefold
duodecuple
thirteenfold
tredecuple
a hundredfold
centuple
multiple
elevensome
twelvesome
thirteensome
hundredsome
one of eleven
undecuplet
hendecuplet
one of twelve
duodecuplet
one of thirteen
tredecuplet
one of a hundred
centuplet
one of many
multiplet
Derived words: prime quadruplet
Translations:
quintuplet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quintuple + -et, from Middle French quintuple.
Base: quintuple
Affixes: -et
Inflected forms:
form: quintuplets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group of five, particularly (music) a tuplet of five notes to be played in the time for four.
pos: noun
gloss: One of a group of five, particularly babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
pos: noun
gloss: A cycle adapted for five riders, all of whom can assist in the propulsion.
pos: noun
Synonyms: quintet
Related words: twin
single
solo
double
twofold
triple
threefold
quadruple
fourfold
quintuple
pentuple
fivefold
loner
singleton
monad
pair
couple
twosome
duo
dyad
trio
threesome
triad
troika
foursome
quartet
tetrad
fivesome
quintet
pentad
only one
singlet
one of two
doublet
triplet
one of three
quadruplet
one of four
quintuplet
pentuplet
one of five
sextuple
hextuple
sixfold
septuple
heptuple
sevenfold
octuple
eightfold
ninefold
nonuple
tenfold
decuple
sixsome
sextet
hexad
sevensome
septet
heptad
eightsome
octet
octad
ninesome
nonet
ennead
tensome
decet
decad
sextuplet
hextuplet
one of six
one of seven
septuplet
heptuplet
octuplet
one of eight
one of nine
nonuplet
one of ten
decuplet
elevenfold
undecuple
hendecuple
twelvefold
duodecuple
thirteenfold
tredecuple
a hundredfold
centuple
multiple
elevensome
twelvesome
thirteensome
hundredsome
one of eleven
undecuplet
hendecuplet
one of twelve
duodecuplet
one of thirteen
tredecuplet
one of a hundred
centuplet
one of many
multiplet
Translations:
quagmire
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Recorded since 1579, from quag + mire. The sense “perilous, mixed up and troubled situation” has been recorded since 1775.
Alternatively, the word may apparently be a variation of the earlier quakemire, from quake + mire.
Compare typologically Bulgarian тресавище (tresavište), Polish trzęsawisko, Russian тряси́на (trjasína) (akin to трясти́ (trjastí)); зыбь (zybʹ), зыбу́н (zybún) (<… Proto-Slavic *zybь).
Base: quag
Inflected forms:
form: quagmires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quagmires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quagmiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quagmired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quagmired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A swampy, soggy area of ground.
pos: noun
examples: That quagmire regularly ‘swallows’ caught-up hikers’ boots
Never did I see a more dreary and depressing scene. Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fringed with tall rushes, in which the bitterns boomed and the frogs croaked incessantly: miles on miles of it without a break, unless the fever fog can be called a break.
gloss: A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.
Those election results are a quagmire for any coalition except one of national union.
"And what was this, my beloved brother, but a vain yielding to unbridled imagination, which, like a spring confined to one spot, collects its pure clear waters, and in at once a beauty and a blessing; but which, allowed to spread abroad in every direction, oozes through the marshy earth, becomes stagnant, and is habited by the loathsome reptile. That which would have been a green haunt, with its fair fountain, is a dreary and useless quagmire. Is it not thus with the mind, Guido?"
I’ve had my doubts about Daenerys’ ability to rule, inspired in part by the quagmire in Meereen. Still, this feels like a precipitous decline. The queen of sobriquets has always been power hungry.
The only way to know Shakespeare is through his works, and his works are textual quagmires.
gloss: To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: quagmirical
quagmirish
quagmiry
Translations:
quaint
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English queynte, quoynte, from Anglo-Norman cointe, queinte and Old French cointe (“pretty, clever, knowing”), from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognōscō (“to know”).
Inflected forms:
form: quainter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: quaintest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person: cunning, crafty.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: But you, my Lord, were glad to be imploy'd, / To shew how queint an Orator you are.
gloss: Cleverly made; artfully contrived.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: describe races and games, / Or tilting furniture, imblazon'd shields, / Impresses quaint, caparisons and steeds, / Bases and tinsel trappings […].
gloss: Strange or odd; unusual.
pos: adj
tags: dialectal
examples: Till that there entered on the other side / A straunger knight, from whence no man could reed, / In quyent disguise, full hard to be descride […].
Lord Gifford, deep beneath the ground, / Heard Alexander's bugle sound, / And tarried not his garb to change, / But, in his wizard habit strange, / Came forth, a quaint and fearful sight; [...]
What none would dispute though many smiled over was the good-humored, necessary, yet quaint omission of the writer's name from the whole consideration.
gloss: Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: She, nothing quaint / Nor 'sdeignfull of so homely fashion, / Sith brought she was now to so hard constraint, / Sate downe upon the dusty ground anon […].
gloss: Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.
pos: adj
examples: I admire all that quaint, old-fashioned politeness; it is much more to my taste than modern ease; modern ease often disgusts me.
If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air, / Quaint little villages here and there, / You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod.
The rock is a haven for rare wildlife, a landscape where pretty hedgerows and quaint villages are bordered by a breathtaking, craggy coastline.
Derived words: quaintish
quaintlike
quaintly
quaintness
quaintsome
unquaint
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: ексцентричен
roman: ekscentričen
lang: Czech
word: nevhodný
lang: Czech
word: nepříhodný
lang: Czech
word: nesourodý
lang: Czech
word: divný
lang: Czech
word: prapodivný
lang: Czech
word: prazvláštní
lang: Danish
word: løjerlig
lang: Dutch
word: onlogisch
lang: Dutch
word: ongepast
lang: Dutch
word: onsamenhangend
lang: French
word: incongru
lang: French
word: inconvenant
lang: French
word: malséant
lang: French
word: dissonant
lang: Italian
word: inappropriato
lang: Italian
word: vano
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: neprikladan
lang: Swedish
word: sirlig
lang: Swedish
word: sällsam
xerox
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Genericized trademark from Xerox (“a photocopier”), from xerography, from Ancient Greek ξηρός (xērós, “dry”) and γραφή (graphḗ, “writing”).
Inflected forms:
form: xeroxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Xerox
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: xeroxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: xeroxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: xeroxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: xeroxed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Xerox
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A xerograph (copy).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
informal
examples: Near-synonyms: photocopy (broadly synonymous), photostat (broadly synonymous)
Hand me that xerox, would you?
There were twenty pictures in the envelope, xeroxes but clear enough. They documented the scene pretty much as I imagined it.
gloss: A xerographer (machine).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
informal
examples: Near-synonyms: photocopier, photoduplicator, copier (broadly synonymous), photostat (broadly synonymous)
The xerox broke down yesterday.
gloss: To make a copy using a xerographer.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Near-synonyms: photocopy, photoduplicate (broadly synonymous), photostat (broadly synonymous)
I xeroxed the report for all the people at the meeting.
Derived words: xerocracy
Xerox art
xerox copy
xeroxlore
xerox machine
xeroxable
xeroxer
Translations:
pimple
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Early Modern English pimple, pumple, from Middle English pymple, pympyl, of uncertain origin but probably a nasalized variant of Old English *pipel, *pypel, from Old English piplian, pyplian (“to break out in pimples, show eruptions”), probably related to Latin papula (“pimple, pustule”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”)). Akin to Old English pipliġende (“having shingles”).
Inflected forms:
form: pimples
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pimples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pimpling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pimpled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pimpled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.
pos: noun
examples: I had to pop that embarrassing pimple, it was huge and red and on the tip of my nose.
gloss: An annoying person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He's such a pimple! I wish he'd stop being so irritating!
gloss: Scotch (whisky)
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
slang
gloss: To develop pimples.
pos: verb
Synonyms: acker
acne
pustule
spot
plook
zit
Related words: blackhead
whitehead
Derived words: goose pimple
pimpleback
pimpled
pimple dick
pimpleless
pimplelike
pimplous
pimply
simple as a pimple
Translations:
iceberg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-so-der.
Proto-Germanic *īsą
Proto-West Germanic *īs
Old English īs
Middle English is
English ice
▲
Dutch ijsbergpcalq.
English iceberg
Partial calque of Dutch ijsberg (compound of ijs (“ice”) + berg (“mountain”)), from Middle Dutch ijsberch. First used to describe a glacier as seen at a distance from a ship then used as a term to describe the floating chunks of ice broken off from such glaciers. Cognate to German Eisberg, Danish isbjerg, Norwegian isberg and Swedish isberg. Figurative senses in reference to the fact that only one-tenth of an iceberg is usually visible above water.
Compound parts: ijs
berg
Inflected forms:
form: icebergs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The seaward end of a glacier.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf
pos: noun
examples: The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
Clissold the excellent cook, who should have gone with the motor party, tumbled off a small iceberg and concussed himself while posing or 'ponting' as it had come to be known- Griffith Taylor, with his usual wit, had defined 'to pont' as 'to spend a deuce of a time posing in an uncomfortable position'.
The passengers still on board were keen to watch as Tessa's crew scrambled for their positions, and she heard jokes about icebergs and devil's triangles, and anxious childish queries answered by soothing adult tones.
gloss: An aloof person.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: He has little to lose: at present he will go down in history, alongside George W. Bush, as a skipper who ignored the looming fiscal iceberg.
gloss: A topic that is more convoluted and fractal than it may seem.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
figuratively
slang
examples: Near-synonym: rabbit hole
Do some digging into that politician's past life and associates, and you'll see that the iceberg runs deep.
There's a massive iceberg of increasingly crazy fanfics out there based around those two characters.
gloss: A topic that is more convoluted and fractal than it may seem.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
broadly
figuratively
slang
examples: Check out the gaming iceberg on this post! There's some really freaky titles there that I've never heard of.
Today we're gonna talk about the Star Wars iceberg.
Related words: berg
fatberg
ice
ice floe
freeboard
growler
melt pond
Derived words: bergy bit
blue iceberg
earthberg
iceberg basement
iceberg chart
iceberg droppings
iceberger
iceberg green
iceberg lettuce
iceberglike
iceberg theory
iceberg video
icebergy
oilberg
tip of the iceberg
Translations:
forefinger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Mid-15th century, from Middle English forefynger; equivalent to fore- + finger.
Base: finger
Affixes: fore-
Inflected forms:
form: forefingers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The index finger: the first finger next to the thumb.
pos: noun
examples: He touched me on the arm with his forefinger twice or thrice giving a ghastly nod each time:- […]
Translations:
pinky
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Dutch pinkenbor.
English pink
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English pinky
From pink + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: pinkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pinkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pinkies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pinkish.
pos: adj
examples: In a pinky paper all folded neat,
And they fastened it down with a pin.
gloss: Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
historical
slang
uncountable
examples: “Here,” Nigel greeted him, “do try a spot of ‘pinky,’ it's ever so much fun, really.”
gloss: A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A white person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
ethnic
offensive
slang
slur
uncountable
gloss: The Australasian snapper or pink snapper (Chrysophrys auratus).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: You may get some pinkies around the Black Rock area, but the snapper *run* is normally from late October to mid January, although it sounds like the odd adult fish is still lurking..
gloss: A kind of fishing schooner of New England.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
Translations:
Norwegian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Norwegia + -n or Old English Norweġ + -ian.
Base: Norwegia
Affixes: -n
Inflected forms:
form: Norwegians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Nw.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Norwayan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Norvegian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more Norwegian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Norwegian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Nw.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Norwayan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Norvegian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person of a North Germanic ethnic group native to Scandinavia, comprising the ethnic majority of Norway.
pos: noun
examples: But despite the President’s offer, it’s unlikely that an influx of Norwegians will begin to settle in the US anytime soon.
At the age of 22, the Norwegian forward had already established himself as one of the best goalscorers in European football – first at Red Bull Salzburg, then with two prolific seasons at Borussia Dortmund.
gloss: A kind of fishing boat on the Great Lakes of North America.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to Norway (the country).
pos: adj
examples: Between Kiruna and the Norwegian border, along the chain of lovely lakes, a number of holiday resorts offering every comfort for the visitor have been developed.
Since she sprang from the imagination of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890, this coldhearted antiheroine has maintained a tight grip on the attention of audiences across the globe, outstripping all the many other complicated women in Ibsen’s oeuvre, even the door-slamming Nora of “A Doll’s House”.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Norwegian people.
pos: adj
examples: The line ends at Narvik. Eight years ago the whole town was in ruins, but the industry of the Norwegian people has rebuilt it entirely.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Norwegian language.
pos: adj
Related words: Dano-Norwegian
Middle Norwegian
Neo-Norwegian
New Norwegian
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Old Norwegian
Swedo-Norwegian
Bokmål
Høgnorsk
Landsmål
Nynorsk
Riksmål
Wiktionary’s coverage of Norwegian terms
Derived words: Norwegian angelica
Norwegian coupling
Norwegian elkhound
Norwegian Empire
Norwegian forest cat
Norwegianisation
Norwegianise
Norwegianization
Norwegianize
Norwegianness
Norwegian Sea
Norwegian whist
Scandiwegian
Translations:
duck
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: caving
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English ducken, duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”).
Cognates
Related to Scots dulk (“to duck”), Middle Dutch ducken (“to duck”), Low German ducken (“to duck”), German ducken (“to duck”), Danish dukke, dykke (“to dive”). Related also to Scots dook, douk (“to bathe, drench, soak, baptise”), West Frisian dûke (“to plunge, dive”), Dutch duiken (“to dive, plunge, duck”), Low German duken (“to duck, dive, stoop”), German tauchen (“to dive, plunge, immerse, duck”), Swedish dyka (“to dive, submerge”).
Inflected forms:
form: ducks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ducking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ducked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ducked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ducks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As some raw youth in country bred,
To arms by thirst of honour led,
When at a skirmish first he hears
The bullets whistling round his ears,
Will duck his head aside
Rimmer ducked his body low into his chair, so just his head remained above the table top, and peered past the backs of the examinees in front of him, waiting for the adjudicator to make his move.
gloss: To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Adams after ducking the Squire tvvice or thrice leaped out of the Tub, […]
gloss: To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […]In Tiber ducking thrice, by break of day[…]
gloss: To bow.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Learned pate / Duckes to the Golden Foole.
gloss: To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Victorian women choosing to duck the demands of domestic life to spend their time doing something they enjoyed is hardly a novel idea.
But pressed by Labour's Marsha de Cordov in the House of Commons on June 29, on "whether he plans to reduce the total number of ticket offices", Merriman ducked the question but confirmed that the Government wants to close ticket offices.
That was the moment, but Senate Republicans ducked it.
gloss: To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The music is ducked under the voice.
gloss: To enter a place for a short moment.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute; can you hold my bag?
gloss: A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
pos: noun
Synonyms: duck down
Derived words: beduck
duckable
duck and cover
duck down
ducker
duck off
duck out
unducked
duck and dive
duckroll
Translations:
rue
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rewen, ruwen, ruen, reowen, from Old English hrēowan (“to rue; make sorry; grieve”), perhaps influenced by Old Norse hryggja (“to distress, grieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrewwaną (“to sadden; repent”).
Inflected forms:
form: rues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ruing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rueing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rued
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rewe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to rue the day
I rued the day I crossed paths with her.
I wept to see, and rued it from my heart.
Thy will chose freely what it now so justly rues.
And feminization of the homeland is something to be rued, while the feminized humiliation of the enemy for the sake of the fatherland is cause for commendation and celebration.
And was the fact she was no longer losing large chunks of time something to be celebrated or something to be rued?
“If we get in a fight, you'll be ruing your lack of training.”
Nicola Sturgeon rues descent into ‘toxic’ debate on topics such as equal marriage [title]
The line used to continue to Ilfracombe, but that was closed in 1970 - another short-sighted decision that is still rued today.
gloss: To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To feel compassion or pity; to take pity (on), to have compassion (on).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
obsolete
examples: […] till our Lord's clouds rue upon the earth, and send down a watring of rain: Truly , I think Christ's misty dew a welcome message from heaven, till my Lord's rain fall : […]
1842, Nicholas Ridley, The Life of Nicholas Ridley
which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them
Rue on thy despairing lover! Canst thou break his faithfu' heart?
gloss: To feel sorrow or regret.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.
Derived words: unrueing
Translations:
apology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French apologie, from Late Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “a speech in defence”), from ἀπολογοῦμαι (apologoûmai, “I speak in my defense”), from ἀπόλογος (apólogos, “an account, story”), from ἀπό (apó, “from, off”) (see apo-) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”). Doublet of apologia. By surface analysis, apo- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: apologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: apologie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).
pos: noun
examples: What he said really hurt my feelings, but his apology sounded so sincere that I couldn't help but forgive him.
The CEO made a public apology for the scandal, and promised full cooperation with the authorities.
gloss: A formal justification, defence.
pos: noun
examples: the Apology of Socrates
gloss: Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.
pos: noun
examples: a poor apology for a hotel room
[He] goes to work devising apologies for window curtains.
The response to firing is remarkable, and though the 280 lb. pressure seems more in the nature of a reserve for emergencies than a continuous working figure, even with the present-day apology for coal it seldom fell below 250 lb., and could always be brought up to blowing-off point with little difficulty. To this liveliness of steaming the thermic syphons are doubtless the chief contributory.
Related words: apologetic
apologetics
apologia
remorse
Derived words: antapology
apologee
apologian
apologise
apologism
apologist
apologize
apologizer
fauxpology
ifpology
my apology
non-apology
nonapology
non-apology apology
nonapology apology
nonpology
notpology
preapology
pre-apology
send one's apologies
unapology
vlogpology
Translations:
vegetable
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetābilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from vegetāre (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt and ofett, whence modern wort and ovest.
Related to vigil, vigour, vajra, and waker.
Inflected forms:
form: vegetables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vegitable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: vegitable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any plant.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.
The first of the tall trees was reached, and by the bearings proved the wrong one. So with the second. The third rose nearly two hundred feet into the air above a clump of underwood — a giant of a vegetable, with a red column as big as a cottage, and a wide shadow around in which a company could have manoeuvred.
gloss: A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
pos: noun
gloss: The edible part of such a plant.
pos: noun
gloss: A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
gloss: A mine (explosive device).
pos: noun
tags: historical
slang
gloss: Of or relating to plants.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This substance is vegetable, not mineral.
On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
gloss: Of or relating to vegetables.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: vegetable
Related words: vegan
vegetarian
vegetate
vegetation
:Category:Vegetables
Derived words: aromatic vegetable
fruit vegetable
green vegetable bug
hydrolyzed vegetable protein
leaf vegetable
multivegetable
nonvegetable
pod vegetable
regrowing vegetable
root vegetable
sea vegetable
textured vegetable protein
Tianjin preserved vegetable
vegeburger
vegetable acid
vegetable albumin
vegetable-based
vegetable box
vegetable butter
vegetable carbon
vegetable casein
vegetable caterpillar
vegetable dye
vegetable egg
vegetable fat
vegetable fern
vegetable fibrin
vegetable food
vegetable garden
vegetable hummingbird
vegetable ivory
vegetable ivory tree
vegetable jelly
vegetable juice
vegetable kingdom
vegetable lamb
vegetable leather
vegetable marrow
vegetable meat
vegetable mercury
vegetable mucus
vegetable oil
vegetable oyster
vegetable parchment
vegetable pear
vegetable rennet
vegetable sheep
vegetable shortening
vegetable soup
vegetable spaghetti
vegetable sulfur
vegetable sulphur
vegetable vitellin
vegetable weevil
vegetably
veggie
Translations:
hand-hole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hand + hole.
Compound parts: hand
hole
Inflected forms:
form: hand-holes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small hole in a steam boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
habit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English habit, from Latin habitus (“condition, bearing, state, appearance, dress, attire”), from habeō (“to have, hold, keep”). Distantly related to gift. Replaced Middle English abit, from Old French abit, itself from the same Latin source. Displaced native Old English þēaw, wuna, and ġewuna.
Inflected forms:
form: habits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: habits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: habiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: habited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: habited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An action performed on a regular basis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It’s become a habit of mine to have a cup of coffee after dinner.
a man of very shy, retired habits
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
gloss: An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By force of habit, he dressed for work even though it was holiday.
gloss: An addiction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: kick the habit
He has a 10-cigar habit.
Another white boy band / They're happy on demand / Everything is planned / Until the singer gets a habit
gloss: To clothe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Here I began my shopping, was interviewed by dressmakers, and naturally had much to do to habit myself for civilized life again.
gloss: To inhabit.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
Related words: exhibit
habitual
habituate
habitus
inhibit
prohibit
habitant
inhabit
Derived words: creature of habit
crystal habit
drop like a bad habit
eating habit
force of habit
habit and repute
habit cough
habit-forming
habit of body
habit of mind
habit of thought
habit shirt
kick the habit
make a habit of
mañana habit
marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute
marriage by habit and repute
quit the oxygen habit
riding habit
Translations: