yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
automatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.?
Proto-Indo-European *sóder.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.
Ancient Greek αὖ (aû)
Ancient Greek τόν (tón)?
Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)
Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)
Proto-Indo-European *men-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós
Proto-Hellenic *mətós
Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτος (autómătos)
Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτον (autómăton)der.
Classical Latin automatum
New Latin automaticusbor.
English automatic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
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
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English automatically
From automatic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more automatically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most automatically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an automatic manner.
pos: adv
examples: Most of the overhead system is of the weight-tensioned type, constant tension being automatically applied by balance weights.
The mere existence of a dictionary of a certain variety of English does not automatically confer acceptance of that variety.
The Social Security Administration announced Friday that it will no longer automatically withhold 100% of the overpayment amount from recipients’ monthly benefits. Instead, it will collect 10% – or $10, whichever is greater – to recover the overpayment.
Translations:
affluenza
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of affluence + influenza.
Compound parts: affluence
influenza
Inflected forms:
form: affluenzas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A feeling of dissatisfaction, anxiety, etc., caused by the dogged and ongoing pursuit of more goods and possessions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The tension heightens when speaking about "affluenza" from within the economic cultures of Western countries and in particular our North American society. We do live quite privileged lives. Our privileges have clearly become expectations. […] Affluenza has been defined as a cultural disease of excess—an excess that seldom satiates the desire for more. The virus is identified by its symptoms: the feverish pursuit of products, possessions, and privileged passions, which might be outpaced only by a market-driven economy, ravenous consumption, an increasing anxiety over exponential debt, and the yield of excessive waste. Affluenza has also been more personally identified by unmanageable stress and pervasive feelings of emptiness.
I think that all moms, no matter what their faith, struggle with the expectations of Affluenza Season, especially with the rosy Norman-Rockwell-type images of happy families shown in commercials starting at 12:01 a.m. the day after Halloween (didn't it use to be the day after Thanksgiving?).
Many contemporary industrial societies are characterized by the condition some writers call "affluenza". In the affluenzic society, the continuous growth in material wealth and consumption of material goods sits at the centre of human life and aspirations, rapidly reducing and replacing other goals and values of human fulfilment[…]. Constituted by a set of robust positive feedback mechanisms, affluenza is the larger system under which many local and global economies now operate, and which shapes the personal values of many individuals and the social priorities of many nations and governments.
This minor epidemic of affluenzas does not signal a politics that is, in analytical terms, creative. Rather, it signals a type of commentary that has reached an impasse, uncertain of how to further develop an interpretation of and response to the exigencies of global consumption. Even more damagingly, talk of ‘affluenza’ has become a dead end in a time beyond the millennial boom; an era that requires a far more nuanced understanding of why and how the West consumes than is evident in a trite, if pithy, labelling of the western individual as manic shopper.
Translations:
intervenor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English intervene
English -or
English intervenor
From intervene + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: intervenors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: intervener
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who intervenes, especially in a legal sense.
pos: noun
Translations:
brillig
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Supposedly from bryl or broil.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, explained by Humpty Dumpty as "four o'clock in the afternoon — the time when you begin broiling things for dinner."
pos: adj
tags: uncountable
examples: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
Translations:
lupe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lupes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The Pacific imperial pigeon (Ducula pacifica).
pos: noun
Translations:
anabolic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”) + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: anabolics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to anabolism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Men may also have fertility challenges, especially if their hypogonadism was caused by anabolic steroid use.
gloss: An anabolic steroid.
pos: noun
Translations:
transfix
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French transfixer, from Old French transfixer, from Latin transfigō (“to pierce through”), from trans- (“through”) + figō (“to pierce”).
Inflected forms:
form: transfixes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transfixing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transfixed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transfixed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: transfixes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.
But we may as well accept her story as true, for it is likely she would have been transfixed by the narcissism of the weight lifters.
gloss: To pierce with a sharp pointed weapon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The spear transfixed my arm that was uplifted
In swift expostulation, and the blood
Gushed round its point: I smiled, […]
There was a little stream that ran not far away, in which he bathed, and down this on occasion would come a shoal of fish. Then the natives would assemble with spears, and with much shouting would transfix the great startled things as they hurried down to the sea.
gloss: To fix or impale.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A discontinuous affix, typical of Afro-Asiatic languages, which occurs at more than one position in a word, i.e. a combination of prefixes, infixes and/or suffixes.
pos: noun
examples: The Arabic word مكتوب (maktūb, “written”) is built from the root [script needed] (k–t–b, “writing”) and the transfix [script needed] (ma––ū–, “passive participle”).
Related words: transfixation
transfixion
transfixture
Derived words: transfixable
Translations:
erratic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English erratik, erratyk, from Latin errāticus; compare Old French erratique.
Inflected forms:
form: more erratic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most erratic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: erratick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: erraticke
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: erratique
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: erratics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: erratick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: erraticke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: erratique
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent.
pos: adj
examples: Henry has been getting erratic scores on his tests: 40% last week, but 98% this week.
The V-2's directional system was notoriously erratic. In May 1947, a V-2 launched from White Sands Proving Ground headed south instead of north, missing downtown Juarez, Mexico, by 3 miles.
gloss: Deviating from normal opinions or actions; eccentric; odd.
pos: adj
examples: erratic conduct
gloss: A rock moved from one location to another, usually by a glacier.
pos: noun
examples: The term for a displaced boulder is an erratic, but in the nineteenth century the expression seemed to apply more often to the theories than to the rocks.
During the last ice-age, massive stones were carried for miles by the scouring glaciers, only to be left, like passengers at the end of the line, when the glaciers retreated. Stranded in their new surroundings with rocks with which they share no common geology, their out-of-place-ness is evoked by their name: “erratics”.
gloss: Anything that has erratic characteristics.
pos: noun
Antonyms: consistent
Derived words: erratical
erratically
erraticism
erraticity
erraticness
glacial erratic
inerratic
knight-erratic
nonerratic
unerratic
Translations:
theurgy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin theūrgia, from Ancient Greek θεουργίᾱ (theourgíā, “sorcery”), from θεός (theós, “god”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). By surface analysis, the- + -urgy.
Inflected forms:
form: theurgies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of magic designed to allow for worship or conjuration of, or communication with spirits or deities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And from this he concludes that theurgy is a craft which accomplishes not only good but evil among gods and men; and that the gods also have passions, and are perturbed and agitated by the emotions which Apuleius attributed to demons and men, but from which he preserved the gods by that sublimity of residence, which, in common with Plato, he accorded to them.
1873, Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma, Chapter VII: The Testimony of Jesus to Himself,
This, again, in our popular theurgy, is materialised into the First person of the Trinity approving the Second, because he stands to the contract already in the Council of the Trinity passed.
They therefore devoted themselves to examining the nature of the soul, and taught that its freedom consists in communion with God, to be achieved by absorption in a sort of ecstatic trance. This doctrine reaches its height in Plotinus, after whom it degenerated into magic and theurgy in its unsuccessful combat with the victorious Christianity.
For instance I have heard many people say that Dionysus was a mortal man because he was born of Semele, and that he became a god through his knowledge of theurgy and the Mysteries, and like our lord Heracles for his royal virtue was translated to Olympus by his father Zeus.
Spiritual magic or theurgy was based on the idea that one could reach God in an ascent up the scale of creation made possible by a rigorous course of prayer, fasting and devotional preparation.
gloss: A supernatural intervention in human affairs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: theurge
thaumaturgy
Derived words: theurgic
theurgical
theurgically
theurgist
Translations:
cask
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French casque. Doublet of casco and casque.
Inflected forms:
form: casks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: casking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: casked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: casked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To put into a cask.
pos: verb
Translations:
axel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Norwegian skater Axel Paulsen (1855–1938), who in 1882 became the first to perform the jump.
Inflected forms:
form: axels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: axels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: axeling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: axelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: axeled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: axeled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: axelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: axelled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air.
pos: noun
examples: Wylie, however, landed his Olympic axels beautifully and electrified the crowd as he capped a skating career that began at age three in Aspen, Colorado, when he followed two older sisters onto the ice.
Men had to do triple Axels or at least attempt them with tenacity.
[…]King et al. (1994) and King (1997) compared single, double, and triple axels of junior and senior level skaters; Albert and Miller (1996) compared single and double axels of “good” figure skaters;[…].
gloss: To perform a jump of this kind.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
measuring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: measurings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Act of measurement.
pos: noun
examples: The repeated measurings of one monument result in a mean approximation to something actually existing, and this is an excellent definition of an average.
Translations:
Crispin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Crispinus, derivative of the Roman family name Crispus (“curly”).
Alternatively, contraction of Crispus (“hair”) and pinus (“pine”), according to Miraculum Quo Beata Maria Subvenit Guillelmo Crispino
Inflected forms:
form: Crispins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shoemaker.
pos: noun
tags: dated
humorous
examples: The fact is, that the Princess of Wales, having suffered from weakness in the knee, walks with a slight halt, and the apes of fashion have persuaded their Crispins to supply boots with one long and one short heel, in order that they may follow in the footsteps of royalty.
Boot after boot was tried on until at last a fit was obtained, when in rushed a man, snatched up the customer's hat left near the door, and ran down the street as fast as his legs could carry him. Away went the customer after his hat, and Crispin, standing at the door, clapped his hands, and shouted, “Go it, you'll catch him!”—little thinking that it was a concerted trick, and that neither his boots nor the customer would ever return.
gloss: A variety of apple, the Mutsu.
pos: noun
Translations:
shoemaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English shomaker, equivalent to shoe + maker. Compare Dutch schoenmaker, German Schuhmacher, Danish skomager.
Compound parts: shoe
maker
Inflected forms:
form: shoemakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shummaker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
East-Anglia
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person who makes shoes.
pos: noun
examples: He especially recommended the only shoemaker who, to his mind, had an idea of making a shoe; and Lucy had at least half-a-dozen pair made, fitted, and descanted upon, before he was satisfied that they did justice to the shape of her foot, which proved extremely good when it was properly chaussé.
The diseases of shoemakers receive attention as well as the toxicology of shoepolish.
The town records show a hosier, a shoemaker, and a soapmaker in position to sell their wares to visitors[.]
gloss: The threadfish.
pos: noun
gloss: A fish, Elagatis pinnulatis, the runner.
pos: noun
Derived words: Shoemaker
the shoemaker always wears the worst shoes
the shoemaker's children go barefoot
Translations:
zoophilia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From zoo- + -philia.
Base: zoo
Inflected forms:
form: zoophilias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zoöphilia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A paraphilia involving the sexual attraction of people to non-human animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Excessive fondness for animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
uncommon
uncountable
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:zoophilia.
Related words: bestiality
zoophile
Translations:
wer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wer, were, from Old English wer (“man”), from Proto-West Germanic *wer, from Proto-Germanic *weraz, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“man, freeman”).
Cognate with Middle High German wër (“man”), Swedish värbror (“brother-in-law”), Norwegian verfader (“father-in-law”), Latin vir (“man, husband”), Old Irish fer, Middle Welsh gwr. The original meaning of “man” is now preserved only in compounds like werewolf, were wolf (“man-wolf”) and wergeld, were gild (“man gold (payment)”).
Inflected forms:
form: wers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: were
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A man; a male; a husband.
pos: noun
examples: […]the character of a horseman was inseparable connected with the knight—the military attendant of the baron, who was himself nothing more than the Wer, or Man, of the king—even the armiger, […]
Further is this wort of two kinds, wer and wife, or male and female. The wer, or male, hath white blossoms, and the wife, or female, hath red or brown; either is beneficial and wonderlike, and they have on them wondrous virtue.
gloss: A fine for slaying a man; wergeld.
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
examples: Under the system of money compensation, the kindred of the slain must demand payment of the wer, or prosecute the feud. They had the right to the wer when paid, and must by oath release the slayer and his kindred from the feud.
It was so in the England of Alfred's day; the maternal kinsfolk paid a third of the wer. The Leges Henrici, which about such a matter will not be inventing new rules, tell us that the paternal kinsfolk pay and receive two-thirds, the maternal kinsfolk one-third of the wer; and this is borne out by other evidence.
Related words: were
were-
werewolf
wergeld
world
Translations:
yachtsman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English yacht
English -s-
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English yachtsman
From yacht + -s- + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: yachtsmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yachtman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A man who sails a yacht.
pos: noun
examples: 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Irish Sketch Book published together with The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, New York: Caxton, Chapter 10, p. 379,
[…] and so ended, not without a sigh on my part, one of the merriest six-hour rides that five yachtsmen, one cockney, five women and a child, the carman, and a countryman with an alpeen, ever took in their lives.
We knew him already by sight as the owner of a little five-ton cutter, which he sailed alone apparently, a fellow yachtsman in the unpretending band of fanatics who cruise at the mouth of the Thames. But the first time he addressed the waiter sharply as ‘steward’ we knew him at once for a sailor as well as a yachtsman.
[…] needless to say, the thing that all the cautious and experienced yachtsmen had warned him against happened. The black squall out of nowhere, the sudden, senseless frenzy of wind and rain and waves…
Translations:
yachtswoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English yacht
English -s-
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English wīfmann
Middle English woman
Middle English -woman
English -woman
English yachtswoman
From yacht + -s- + -woman.
Inflected forms:
form: yachtswomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman who sails a yacht.
pos: noun
Translations:
yah
Part of speech: adv
intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An alternative pronunciation, equivalent of yeah and yes.
Inflected forms:
form: yahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Yes.
pos: adv
tags: Australia
India
Malaysia
New-Zealand
Singapore
South-Africa
UK
US
not-comparable
examples: Yah, we did go along but it turned out the wedding was a load of nonsense.
gloss: An expression uttered to encourage a horse to run faster.
pos: intj
gloss: An upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
Translations:
yardarm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From yard + arm.
Compound parts: yard
arm
Inflected forms:
form: yardarms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yard-arm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yard arm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards.
pos: noun
examples: Sun's under the yardarm, sis!
Translations:
yawning
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: yawnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more yawning
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most yawning
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb yawn.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her vivacity appeared as graceful as it was buoyant; her gay spirit seemed the musical overflowings of youth and happiness; her eye and cheek brightened together; and her sweet glad laugh was as catching as yawning.
gloss: That yawns or yawn.
pos: adj
examples: yawning commuters
gloss: Wide open.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a yawning chasm; the shark's yawning jaws
That experience really taught me something. That deep down inside, I am broken, and that I'm using work to plaster over some yawning gap within myself.
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what.
But always and ever there is a yawning chasm below[.]
Derived words: yawningly
yawningness
Translations:
yearbook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: education
Etymology: From year + book. Compare Saterland Frisian Jierbouk (“yearbook”), West Frisian jierboek (“yearbook”), Dutch jaarboek (“yearbook”), German Low German Johrbook (“yearbook”), German Jahrbuch (“yearbook”), Swedish årsbok (“yearbook”), Faroese árbók (“annal, record, yearbook”).
Base: year
Inflected forms:
form: yearbooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: year-book
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A reference book, published annually.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A publication compiled by the graduating class of a high school or college, recording the year's events and containing photographs of students and faculty.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
examples: A New Jersey high school will issue new yearbooks after pro-Trump slogans and logos were removed from photos that some students submitted.
A 2017 yearbook photograph obtained by CNN shows Robert Westman, later known as Robin Westman, then a student at Annunciation Catholic grade school in Minneapolis.
gloss: A school subject in which students learn journalistic skills by compiling a yearbook.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
Derived words: yearbooker
yearbookish
yearbooklike
yearbooky
Translations:
yearning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English yerning, from Old English ġierning, ġierninge. Equivalent to the gerund (yearn + -ing). yearn comes from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną, from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) + *-janą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to yearn for”). By surface analysis, yearn + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: yearnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wistful or melancholy longing.
pos: noun
examples: She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.
Related words: yearn
Translations:
yielding
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ȝeldinge, ȝeldynge, ȝeldinde, ȝeldand, from Old English ġyldende, ġieldende, present participle of ġieldan (“to yield, pay”), equivalent to yield + -ing.
Base: yield
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more yielding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most yielding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: yieldings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.
pos: adj
gloss: A concession.
pos: noun
Translations:
yippie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From initials of "Youth International Party" + -ie (influenced by hippie).
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: yippies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Youth International Party, a group of politically active hippies.
pos: noun
Translations:
nay-say
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nay-says
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nay-saying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nay-said
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nay-said
pos: verb
tags: past
form: naysay
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To speak negatively of something.
pos: verb
gloss: To reply no.
pos: verb
Related words: naysayer
gainsay
Translations:
yodel
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
German jodelnbor.
English yodel
Borrowed from German jodeln.
Inflected forms:
form: yodels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yodeling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: yodelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: yodeled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: yodeled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: yodelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: yodelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: yodels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: An act of yodelling.
pos: noun
gloss: A song incorporating yodelling.
pos: noun
Related words: yodelayheehoo
Translations:
yolk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English yolke, yelke, ȝolke, ȝelke, from Old English ġeolca, ġeoloca, ġioleca (“the yellow part, yolk”), derived from Old English ġeolu (“yellow”) + -ca (diminutive suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: yolks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yelk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: yolks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yolking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yolked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yolked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: yelk
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To make meringue, you have to separate the white from the yolk.
gloss: The grease in a sheep's fleece; lanolin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Wool-growers appear to entertain different opinions in regard to the effect which yolk has on the value of the fleece. Some seem to suppose that the aggregate amount which they receive for their wool is increased from the greater weight which it possesses by being charged with this substance[…]
gloss: To produce yolk.
pos: verb
examples: This is surprising in that these females were yolking up their clutch of eggs
Derived words: egg yolk
yolkless
yolklike
yolk plug
yolk sac
Translations:
youngster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From young + -ster. Attested from the early 17th century.
Base: young
Affixes: -ster
Inflected forms:
form: youngsters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young person.
pos: noun
examples: As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
‘Cook-housekeeper jobs don’t grow on trees,’ went on the woman, ‘leastways not where you can keep a youngster with you.’ [...] ‘Do you mean,’ stammered Jess, ‘that you are . . .?’ ‘Cook-housekeeper,’ the woman nodded. ‘Aren’t I telling you? It’s all confirmed!’ ‘And the youngster – me?’ asked Jessamy. ‘Well, whoever else you silly child!’ said the housekeeper, smiling.
“Besides,” she says, looking possessively at her class of Chinese youngsters, “can you imagine these children going to an ordinary school?”
In a single moment Montenegro and their supporters were given fresh impetus and encouragement. Beciraj tested Hart with a low shot before teenager Phil Jones, on his England debut, suffered an anxious moment when Stevan Jovetic went down under his challenge, leaving the youngster clearly relieved to see referee Stark wave away Montenegro's appeals.
Antonyms: oldster
Translations:
youthfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English youthful
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English youthfulness
From youthful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: youthfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The vitality characteristic of youth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: But it was not the sadness, nor indeed, strictly speaking, the infantileness of the face of Isabel which so singularly impressed him with the idea of her original and changeless youthfulness.
Translations:
Yugoslav
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Jugoslàvēn ("Southern Slav"), influenced by Slav.
Inflected forms:
form: more Yugoslav
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Yugoslav
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Jugoslav
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: Yugoslavs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Jugoslav
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or characteristic of Yugoslavia or Yugoslavs.
pos: adj
tags: historical
examples: Due to Greek objections, North Macedonia was often referred to as the "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" for many years.
A small band of men, all very Yugoslav-looking, were sitting in the bar, talking politics.
Titoism was a local variety of Stalinism, very Yugoslav in its nature but also very totalitarian.
But most alarming at the assembly in Vladikavkaz was the evident hatred of the Chechens, the lurid talk of Chechen atrocities, and of most of Chechnya being ‘ancient Terek Cossack land’, for which ‘we must fight to the last Cossack, after the glorious example of our ancestors’ – all very Yugoslav.
Milka also spoke of her sister’s reaction to the collapse of the former Yugoslavia and ongoing media reports of the conflict. The participant’s sister was, before the war: / … very Yugoslav, she adored Yugoslavia and that’s why she’s so hurt.
In the summer of 1991, in the disputed areas of Croatia, the army vainly searched for an aim to justify its existence. It fought a war against Croatian independentists on behalf of a Serbian ‘Yugoslav’ leadership which had not officially entered a war that was not declared, and allowed outside gangs to do most of the dirty work. It did this allegedly to save Yugoslavia. In the process the very mixed and very Yugoslav town of Vukovar was destroyed before it fell, Dubrovnik was blockaded and shelled, and its surroundings were pillaged by military units and volunteers from Montenegro.
“Tm afraid I’m not really one for reading the future in coffee grounds,” she said. “I’m not very Yugoslav. Though I enjoy when other people do it.”
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: He considered himself to be a Yugoslav first and foremost, regardless of his Croat and Serb ancestry.
Translations:
lackadaisical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the archaic expression lackadaisy + -ic + -al.
Base: lackadaisy
Affixes: -ic
-al
Inflected forms:
form: more lackadaisical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lackadaisical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lack-a-daisical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Showing no interest, vigor, determination, or enthusiasm.
pos: adj
examples: the lackadaisical look on his face
I, at one time, used to go and take a hand at cribbage with a friend, and afterwards discuss a cold sirloin of beef, and throw out a few lackadaisical remarks, in a way to please myself, but it would not do long.
"Then let those who do know it learn that you are able to bear such wounds without outward complaint. I tell you fairly that I cannot sympathize with a lackadaisical lover."
I could hear the sound of the janitor's lackadaisical scrubbing against the wooden floor.
gloss: Lazy; slothful; indolent.
pos: adj
Related words: lackaday
lax
Derived words: lackadaisicality
lackadaisically
lackadaisicalness
slackadaisical
Translations:
xerography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From xero- + -graphy.
Base: xero
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A photocopying process in which a negative image formed on an electrically charged plate is transferred as a positive to paper and thermally fixed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
longing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English longynge, langynge, langand, from Old English langiende, from Proto-Germanic *langōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *langōną (“to desire, long for”), equivalent to long + -ing (present participle ending).
Base: long
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more longing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most longing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: longings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
pos: noun
examples: all natural lovings and longings
For round the valley a great desert lies through which no common traveller may come, but those whom the gods have chosen feel suddenly a great longing at heart, and crossing the mountains that divide the desert from the world, set out across it driven by the gods, […]
gloss: The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise.
pos: noun
Synonyms: yearning
Related words: long
desire
miss
Derived words: longing mark
Translations:
xerographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more xerographic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most xerographic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of, relating to, or produced by xerography
pos: adj
Translations:
melancholic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”). By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more melancholic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most melancholic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: melancholick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: melancholicke
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: melancholike
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: melancholics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: melancholick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: melancholicke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: melancholike
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
pos: adj
examples: Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.
But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.
gloss: Pertaining to black bile (melancholy).
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who is habitually melancholy.
pos: noun
examples: Kafka, Hart Crane, Jackson Pollock, Tennessee Williams, Mark Rothko, melancholics all, so why shouldn’t we accept our own bleakness and take long walks in the winter woods and look at the gnarled limbs of trees and struggle with the inscrutable and accept the beauty of permanent turmoil?
Derived words: antimelancholic
melancholically
nonmelancholic
unmelancholic
Translations:
bile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French bile, from Latin bīlis (“bile”).
Partially displaced native English gall (“bile”), from Middle English galle, from Old English galla, ġealla (“gall, bile”).
Inflected forms:
form: biles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.
He spake out of the Pythonesse, Act. 16. 17. brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head.
Derived words: atrabilious
bile acid
bile duct
bileful
bile pigment
bile salt
bile soap
bilestone
biliary
biliary tract
biligenesis
bilious
bilirubin
biliuria
black bile
violet red bile agar
yellow bile
Translations:
spirillum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name, from Latin spira (“coil”).
Inflected forms:
form: spirillums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spirilla
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, having an elongated spiral form and bearing a tuft of flagella.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various other spiral-shaped microorganisms.
pos: noun
Translations:
trickle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English triklen, likely a rebracketing (e.g. teres strikled > teerys trikled (“tears trickled”)) of Middle English striklen (“to trickle”), equivalent to strike + -le.
For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.
Base: strike
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: trickles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trickles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trickling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trickled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trickled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A very thin river.
pos: noun
examples: The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
gloss: A very thin flow; the sound of such a flow.
pos: noun
examples: The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.
gloss: to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
gloss: to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
The period of intensive traffic is over by about 5.30 p.m. and for the rest of the evening steadily diminishes, the main activity being the Channel Islands boat trains which trickle in after about 6.30 p.m. and depart again for Weymouth an hour or so later.
gloss: To move or roll slowly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Some [marbles] were found in a child's grave at Nagada, Egypt […] together with a set of ninepins and three rectangular bricks which could have formed an arch through which to trickle the balls.
They gather one by one, trickling into the shady courtyard, the familiar hum of Mass. Ave. wafting in from behind brick buildings and iron gates.
Their only shot of the first period was a long-range strike from top-scorer Ebanks-Blake which trickled tamely wide.
Derived words: trickle charge
tricklet
atrickle
trickle charger
trickledown
trickle down
trickle-down
trickler
tricklesome
trickle truth
trickle-up trend
tricklingly
trickly
Translations:
laud
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lauden, from Old French lauder, from Latin laudō, laudāre, from laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”), from echoic Proto-Indo-European root *leh₁wdʰ- (“song, sound”). Cognate with Old English lēoþ (“song, poem”), German Lied (“song”). Doublet of leed.
Inflected forms:
form: lauds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lauds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lauding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lauded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lauded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Glorification or praise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So doo vvell and thou ſhalt have laude of the ſame (that is to ſaye of the ruler) […]
Laud be to God
gloss: Hymn of praise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A prayer service following matins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
gloss: To praise; to glorify.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: And hys mought was opened immediatly / and hys tonge / and he ſpake lawdynge god.
The most recognised and lauded dictionary of Indian English today is Yule and Burnell’s Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms; Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, first published in 1886 and updated by William Crooke in 1903.
Translations:
butthead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From butt (“buttocks, backside”) + head. Compare buttface.
Compound parts: butt
head
Inflected forms:
form: buttheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An annoying person or someone who is difficult to get along with.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
derogatory
sometimes
vulgar
examples: If you think, "He is such a butthead," you might ask yourself what a butthead would...
Translations:
complicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French complicité, from Middle French, from Old French complice (“accomplice”), from Late Latin complic-, stem of complex (“partner, confederate”), from Latin complicō (“fold together”).
Inflected forms:
form: complicities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He drew up a placard, offering Twenty Pounds reward for the apprehension of Stephen Blackpool, suspected of complicity in the robbery of Coketown Bank.
gloss: Complexity.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: How easy is it, on the other hand, to an enlightened teacher, particularly in the beginning, to elucidate the various forms of rhythm by methodical arrangement in respect of simplicity and increasing complicity or mixture!
Related words: accomplice
Derived words: complicitous
noncomplicity
uncomplicity
Translations:
italicize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Etymology: Etymology tree
English italic
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English italicize
From italic + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: italicizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: italicizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: italicized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: italicized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: italicise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Senses:
gloss: To put into italics.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To emphasize.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
Derived words: deitalicize
italicization
unitalicize
Translations:
italics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Letters in an italic typeface.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: There is no need to put the whole paragraph in italics.
[T]hey [the Catholics and Puritans] encumbered their verſion [of the Bible] with a load of uſeleſs Italics; often without the leaſt neceſſity, and almoſt always to the detriment of the text. In fact, either the words in Italics are virtually implied in the Hebrew, or they are not. In the former caſe they are a real part of the text, and ſhould be printed in the ſame character: in the latter, they are generally ill aſſorted and clumſy ekes, that may well be ſpared; and which often disfigure the narration under pretence of connecting it.
Writing of cyclic diagramming, he speaks of ". . . the practical state of locomotives that pass through any number of engine and maintenance crews' hands in the course of a week's common user working, receiving love from none". The italics are mine.
Related words: oblique type
italic
Translations:
xylitol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon)
English -itol
English xylitol
From Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon, “wood”) + English -itol (“anhydric alcohol”).
Inflected forms:
form: xylitols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pentahydric alcohol, C₅H₁₂O₅, penta-hydroxy pentane; derived from xylose; used as a sweetener.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A note of caution to readers with pets: Xylitol is toxic to dogs and can have potentially life-threatening effects. As owners of two doggos ourselves, we encourage anyone with a dog to use extreme caution when bringing xylitol into your home.
Translations: