yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Fijian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Fiji
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Fijian
From Fiji + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Fijians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Feejeean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Fejeean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Feejeean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Fejeean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [S]he wore her brown hair flatly braided and coiled behind so as to expose the outline of her head in a daring manner at a time when public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows, never surpassed by any great race except the Feejeean.
Translations:
salvo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin salvo, ablative of salvus, the past participle of salvāre (“to save, to reserve”), either from salvo jure (“the right being reserved”), or from salvo errore et omissone (“reserving error and omission”).
Inflected forms:
form: salvos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salvoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salvos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: salvoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: salvoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: salvoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
pos: noun
examples: 1649, Charles I of England (attributed), Eikon Basilike
They admit […] salvos, cautions, and reservations.
gloss: To discharge weapons in a salvo.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
Yoruba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Yoruba Yorùbábor.
English Yoruba
Borrowed from Yoruba Yorùbá.
Inflected forms:
form: Yoruba
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Yorubas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Yorùbá
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of an ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria, southern Benin, and eastern Togo and, as well as in communities elsewhere in West Africa, United States, Brazil and Cuba.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Approximately 40 percent of Yorubas in Nigeria are Muslim and 60 percent are Christian. […] Its members express a strong preference for being among Yorubas during their worship service: “Since I am a Yoruba and we Yorubas have our own Church. . . ."
Translations:
fulfill
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Etymology: From Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan (“to fill full”). By surface analysis, full- + fill.
Inflected forms:
form: fulfills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fulfilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fulfilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fulfilled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fulfil
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: You made a promise, son, and now you must fulfill it.
Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
gloss: To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: This is the most fulfilling work I've ever done.
gloss: To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: Unfortunately, you don't fulfill the criteria for extra grants at the present time.
gloss: To package, distribute, or ship goods.
pos: verb
tags: US
gloss: To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.
pos: verb
tags: US
archaic
examples: My lady is positively fulfilled of grace.
The silence which benumbs or strains the sense
Fulfils with awe the soul's despair unweeping
Derived words: fulfillment
fulfilment
fulfillable
fulfilled
fulfiller
fulfilling
overfulfill
self-fulfilling prophecy
unfulfill
unfulfilled
unfulfillment
wish-fulfilling
Translations:
lang: Central Bikol
word: utob
lang: Catalan
word: satisfer
lang: Catalan
word: omplir
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 履行
roman: lǚxíng
lang: Finnish
word: tyydyttää
lang: French
word: satisfaire
lang: German
word: erfüllen
lang: Ido
word: satisfacar
lang: Italian
word: soddisfare
lang: Middle English
word: fulfillen
lang: Middle English
word: fillen
lang: Portuguese
word: realizar
lang: Portuguese
word: satisfazer
lang: Romanian
word: satisface
lang: Russian
word: выполня́ть
roman: vypolnjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: вы́полнить
roman: výpolnitʹ
lang: Russian
word: исполня́ть
roman: ispolnjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: испо́лнить
roman: ispólnitʹ
lang: Russian
word: осуществля́ть
roman: osuščestvljátʹ
lang: Russian
word: осуществи́ть
roman: osuščestvítʹ
lang: Slovak
word: napĺňať
fulfil
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fulfils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fulfilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fulfilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fulfilled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: UK standard spelling of fulfill.
pos: verb
examples: It is recorded that this remarkable prophecy, now largely fulfilled, was received with much merriment—an undeserved fate.
While in the most serious cases mounting an investigation is usually mandatory, there are other occasions where it is less clear-cut or when it is concluded that an investigation would not fulfil RAIB's objectives to improve safety or prevent future accidents.
In previous years Penryn Town Council has used Falmouth Town Council to fulfil the parks contract and glyphosate had been used, councillor Debra Clegg confirmed.
Translations:
snobby
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snob
English -y
English snobby
From snob + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: snobbier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: snobbiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a snob.
pos: adj
examples: His tastes are snobby.
Translations:
gobby
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gob
English -y
English gobby
From gob (“lump”) + -y.
Base: gob
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: gobbier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gobbiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gobbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Marked by the presence of gobs (lumps).
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: But if, however, the bees make from it a "gobby" article of comb honey, no one will be quicker to drop it than the Root Co.
...to have a gobby mess of unrelated and meaningless color hung in a metropolitan show...
He poured the Argentine stew in a gobby mess on top of the Spam.
gloss: An act of fellatio.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: In year eight, crouched in a playground cubby, she gave Ryan Glover a gobby. Brief, busy, urgent. Then afterwards, slipping it back into his pants, he said thank you.
He bustles me into a cubicle and locks the door.
"I'm not really in the mood for a gobby," I slur, and laugh girlishly at my joke as I unzip my fly, "but if you insist..."
Have you seen the Colgate Total ad with the female Indian dentist? Would you let her give you a gobby? I would. She has a perdy mouth.
Translations:
offy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English off
English -y
English offy
From off (“first element of noun”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: offies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: offie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An off-licence.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
gloss: An off break.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
gloss: An off spinner.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
Translations:
off-licence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the fact that such stores have a licence only to sell alcohol for consumption off the premises.
Inflected forms:
form: off-licences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: off licence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: off-license
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A shop selling alcohol for consumption only off the premises.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-license; hence, as nobody could legally drink on the premises, the amount of overt accommodation for consumers was strictly limited to a little board about six inches wide and two yards long, fixed to the garden palings by pieces of wire, so as to form a ledge.
After six such encounters in tiny corner shops which normally complained that they were out of sugar, that the cornflakes were late in again and that they couldn't get tomato sauce for love nor money, the Captain, his head reeling, had staggered into the High Street off-licence.
Translations:
prolly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of probably.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Probably.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
slang
examples: I should prolly keep my eyes on the road.
Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.
Naw. That stream's so lazy, it prolly wouldn't even float thee.
Prolly wouldn't be stopped by da cops all da time, even though I ain't doin' nothin' wrong. Prolly wouldn't have my teachers tryna put me in special ed all da time. And prolly would be in the Gifted and Talented Program wit' you and Echo.
"There's prolly good parts of the province. Only good part of the town is it's easy to sneak into the abandoned movie theater and throw expired Milk Duds to the rats."
Translations:
dancing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dancings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The activity of taking part in a dance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dance club in France.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: New dancings pervaded the length and breadth of Montmartre in order to suit the taste of foreign patrons.
Different dancings also attracted different crowds. Indeed, the diversity of dancers throughout the city makes drawing a detailed portrait of them difficult.
Derived words: antidancing
ballroom dancing
barn dancing
belly dancing
border dancing
break dancing
breakdancing
break-dancing
Cotswold morris dancing
country dancing
dad dancing
dad-dancing
dancing bologna
dancing girl
dancing mania
dancing master's kit
dancing plant
dancing school
devil dancing
dirty dancing
disco dancing
folk dancing
grave dancing
Highland dancing
horizontal dancing
ice dancing
Irish step dancing
line dancing
morris dancing
pole dancing
ropedancing
skirt dancing
slam dancing
square dancing
swing dancing
table dancing
tap-dancing
tap dancing
taxi dancing
wire-dancing
Translations:
Walt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Clipping of Walter. The derogatory British sense is a reference to the fictional character Walter Mitty from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered pushover who has wild fantasies about his life in various daring roles.
Inflected forms:
form: Walts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Walt.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who impersonates a veteran (retired member of the armed forces).
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
slang
examples: You're just a bloody Walt!
Translations:
dateless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps derived from Old English þeatless (“thoughtless, without plan”). See also deedless.
Inflected forms:
form: more dateless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dateless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Out of one's head; deranged.
pos: adj
examples: Poor soul, she's gone dateless, I think, with care, and watching, and overmuch trouble; and who can wonder?
and he were put in York prison and tried and hung – hung! Charley! – kind father was hung on a gallows and mother lost sense and grew silly in grief and we were like to be turned on t' wide world and poor mother dateless
An' they geet howd on her, and carried her into Sally Grimshaw's, an' laid her upo' th' couch cheer, as dateless as a stone !
gloss: Thick-headed.
pos: adj
tags: UK
dialectal
slang
examples: Into the court you'd swanned, you dateless little pillock, if not wholly confident of winning, surely careless of losing.
You dateless fool, you stupid ass, clamped to / This crag for all eternity
"You dateless article," stormed his father, leaving Bennett to realise in his laconic way that he was, and probably always would be, a disappointment to Dad.
Translations:
dearest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dearests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A beloved person; a term of endearment.
pos: noun
examples: I need to call my dearest and tell her the news.
Translations:
limey
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: In adjectival senses, by surface analysis, lime + -y.
In the sense of Englishman, reduced from the 19th century term lime-juicer (“a British ship”), from the lime juice British ships carried to ward off scurvy.
Inflected forms:
form: limier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: limiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: limeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Limey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling limes (the fruit); lime-like.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, limes (the fruit).
pos: adj
examples: This drink is full of limey goodness.
gloss: An Englishman or other Briton, or a person of British descent; an English or British immigrant.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
US
ethnic
slang
slur
examples: Ya look like anything ’cept a tourist who’s come to lose his wad and they get a bad case of nose trouble. Take yaself. Anyone can see ya’re a Limey even before ya start talking.
gloss: An English or British ship.
pos: noun
tags: dated
derogatory
slang
Derived words: Limeyland
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: anglaĉo
lang: Esperanto
word: britaĉo
mommy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mom
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English mommy
From mom + -y (diminutive suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: mommies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mother.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
childish
usually
examples: The only bad-karma-reducing sposie on the market is a new line of biodegradable (meaning here "useless") sposie that won't last through the lightest of baby pees and will force you to change baby approximately once every thirty seconds, thereby completely undoing any so-called karma reduction. Only bad mommies use sposies.
They will never part even though in mommy's heart she wishes daddy would leave forever. One grief-some January 25 mommy rested never to return for her and daddy went on a walk. “Where is mommy”, said baby but daddy couldn't talk.
gloss: A sexually attractive mother.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
gloss: Any sexually attractive woman.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
slang
gloss: A dominant female partner, often used as a term of address.
pos: noun
examples: My girlfriend loves it when I call her mommy.
Derived words: godmommy
grandmommy
momminess
mommy-and-me
mommy blogger
mommy brain
mommyhood
mommyish
mommyism
mommy issues
mommy juice
mommyless
mommylike
mommy milker
mommy porn
mommy tax
mommy track
mommy wars
muscle mommy
sanctimommy
stepmommy
sugar mommy
Translations:
Kabyle
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic قَبَائِل (qabāʔil, “tribes”), plural of قَبِيلَة (qabīla, “tribe”), perhaps via French kabyle.
Inflected forms:
form: Kabyles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Kabyle
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Kabyle
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria, speaking the Kabyle language.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to these people or their language.
pos: adj
examples: Revisiting his native land that year, Albert Camus was horrified to find Kabyle children fighting with dogs for the contents of a rubbish bin.
Translations:
debtor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
law
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English dettour, from Old French detour, from Latin debitor, equivalent to debt + -or. Doublet of debitor. Displaced native Old English *sċola.
Base: debt
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: debtors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: debtour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt.
pos: noun
examples: The debtor agreed to repay the loan within six months.
The law protects both the debtor and the creditor.
gloss: One who owes another anything, or is under obligation, arising from express agreement, implication of law, or principles of natural justice, to pay money or to fulfill some other obligation; in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, the person who is the subject of the proceeding.
pos: noun
examples: As a debtor, he faced constant letters from the bank.
O! to Grace how great a Debtor,
Daily I'm conſtrain'd to be;
Derived words: codebtor
debtor in possession
debtorship
homedebtor
nondebtor
zombie debtor
Translations:
songy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *séngʷʰ-e-ti
Proto-Germanic *singwaną
Proto-Germanic *sangwaz
Proto-West Germanic *sangu
Old English sang
Middle English song
English song
English -y
English songy
From song + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: songier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: songiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Song-like.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: 'Polyethylene' is in turn followed by 'Pearly', a songy song: minor key, big vocals, and a nice bridge section.
Translations:
whare
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Māori whare (“house, hut”).
Inflected forms:
form: whare
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Maori house or other building.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
examples: The dwellings of the chiefs are surrounded with enclosures of pole-fences; and the Whares and Wharepunis, some of them exhibiting very fine specimens of the Maori order of architecture, are ornamented with grotesque wood-carvings.
We were on the brow of the hill, and below us there was a whare roofed in with corrugated iron.
At the far end of the whare there's a wooden bed.
gloss: A rough shack or hut built (by Europeans) using traditional Maori techniques; a workman's shack.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
historical
examples: Many New Zealanders will know that a whare is a house. But in this context, the whare were being built for a summer hunting and gathering expedition. It was the 1880s, so timber houses also featured, but here the whānau were travelling to tribal lands and building makeshift whare to camp in.
Related words: wharepuni
whare wānanga
Translations:
kakistocracy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: political-science
social-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάκιστος (kákistos, “worst”), superlative of κακός (kakós, “bad”) + -κρατία (-kratía, “power, rule, government”) (corresponding to -cracy). The word was used, perhaps re-coined, by the English author Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) in his 1829 novella The Misfortunes of Elphin as the opposite of aristocracy (see second quotation).
Affixes: -cracy
Inflected forms:
form: kakistocracies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cacistocracy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.
pos: noun
examples: Therefore we need not make any scruple of praying against […] those restlesse spirits who can no longer live, then be stickling and medling; who are stung with a perpetuall itch of changing and innovating, transforming our old Hierarchy into a new Presbytery, and this againe into a newer Independency; and our well-temperd Monarchy into a mad kinde of Kakistocracy.
The people lived in darkness and vassalage. […] they were utterly destitute of the blessing of those "schools for all," the house of correction, and the treadmill, wherein the autochthonal justice of our agrestic kakistocracy now castigates the heinous sins which were then committed with impunity, […]
Is ours a "government of the people, by the people, for the people," or a Kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?
Thus, the problem was not whether corruption/power abuse was allowed, but how to keep a balance between uprightness and kakistocracy.
Some nation-states have suffered what the Greeks called kakistocracy—government by the worst of men. International law can, in theory if not always in practice, keep these kakistocracies from damaging too much.
As we step into this world—as we enter the age of kakistocracy—we should remember one thing. This isn’t a departure from [Donald] Trump's populism. It's the foundation of it. This is what Trump campaigned on.
So is there a way out of the grim place we’re in? What I believe is that while resentment can put bad people in power, in the long run it can’t keep them there. At some point the public will realize that most politicians railing against elites actually are elites in every sense that matters and start to hold them accountable for their failure to deliver on their promises. And at that point the public may be willing to listen to people who don’t try to argue from authority, don’t make false promises, but do try to tell the truth as best they can. We may never recover the kind of faith in our leaders — belief that people in power generally tell the truth and know what they’re doing — that we used to have. Nor should we. But if we stand up to the kakistocracy — rule by the worst — that’s emerging as we speak, we may eventually find our way back to a better world.
Translations:
sybaritic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Sybarīticus (“of or pertaining to Sybaris or its inhabitants”) + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives from nouns). Sybarīticus is derived from Ancient Greek Συβαρῑτικός (Subarītikós), from Σῠβᾰρῑ́της (Sŭbărī́tēs, “(noun) inhabitant of Sybaris; (adjective) decadent; self-indulgent”) (from Σῠ́βᾰρῐς (Sŭ́bărĭs, “Sybaris”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming demonyms)) + -κός (-kós, suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as Sybarite (“inhabitant of Sybaris”) + -ic. Sybaris, a city of Magna Graecia (the coastal parts of Sicily and southern Italy once colonized by Greek settlers), was known for its wealth and the excesses and hedonism of its inhabitants.
Base: Sybarite
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more sybaritic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sybaritic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Sybaritic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or having the qualities of a sybarite (“a person devoted to luxury and pleasure”); dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent.
pos: adj
examples: His belly is a Ceſterne of receit, / A grand Confounder of demulcing Meate. / A Sabariticke Sea, a depthleſſe Gulfe, / A ſenceleſſe Vulture, a corroding VVolfe.
[S]he, for whom attendant maidens had smoothed the Sybaritic sheet of finest texture, […]
Mike took a slow sybaritic sip. "We do use liquor. A few of us—Saul, myself, Sven, some others—like it. I've learned to let it have just a little effect, then hold it, and gain a euphoric growing-closer much like trance without having to withdraw."
He seeks to work in the arena? […] His is a manly trade; sybaritic Rome, that is becoming effeminate, needs to see muscle at work, recalling more primitive glories.
He [David Hershkovits] loves to sleep late, he loves to entertain, he's an amazing cook. He's such a joyful, celebratory, sybaritic person.
Translations:
Ojibwe
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in English around 1700 (and attested in early French as Outchibouec), from the Ojibwe name of an individual band of Ojibwe, of unclear origin. The most widely accepted theory connects it to Ojibwe ojibwaakide (“it shrivels, it puckers in the fire”), in reference to the puckering or tightening of moccasins at their seams or near fire. Alternatively, Helen Tanner and Edmund Danzinger connect it to the Ojibwe practice of writing on birch bark or making pictographs, respectively; compare ozhibii' (“write (someone's name) down”).
Other, less credible theories:
Other, less likely suggestions include: Henry Schoolcraft derived it from a word *bwe "pertaining to voice" ((compare bedowe (“have a soft voice”)), and like George Belcourt, believed it referred to a peculiarity of the tribe's (language's) pronunciation. Some other works connect it to the word for puckering the lips, which however is bajiishkidooneni (“she or he puckers the lips”), or assert that it refers to roasting captives until their flesh puckered, but this was not a common practice and is improbable as a self-designation.
Inflected forms:
form: more Ojibwe
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Ojibwe
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Ojibwa
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Ojibway
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to this people, culture or language.
pos: adj
examples: Then for 50 years its story lay dormant — although the Dream Dance remained a component of Ojibwe life both north and south of the Canada-U.S. border until its rediscovery by a Winnipeg historian and her colleagues.
Translations:
gee
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown.
Inflected forms:
form: gees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: geeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: geed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: geed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This horse won’t gee when I tell him to.
gloss: To cause an animal to move in this way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You may need to walk up to the front of the pack and physically gee the lead dog.
gloss: To agree; to harmonize.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
examples: It didn't gee with what he had been trained to preach and think about about his religion, you know.
I did use a few of the items, in Elinor's handwriting, to check the writing on the letter that was in the box with the money. It geed.
gloss: A gee-gee, a horse.
pos: noun
examples: You'll say a better major-general has never sat a gee
Derived words: agee
geepound
milligee
gee along
gee and haw
gee haw whammy diddle
gee haw whimmy diddle
gee pole
gee up
haw and gee
Translations:
haw
Part of speech: intj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ha (interjection). Compare Old Norse há (interjection), Middle Low German ha, hā (interjection), Old High German aha, hei (interjection).
Inflected forms:
form: haws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hawed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hawed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: haws
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw).
pos: intj
examples: You think that song was good? Haw!
The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.
gloss: An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made.
pos: intj
examples: Hums or haws.
gloss: To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
pos: verb
gloss: Fruit of the hawthorn.
pos: noun
examples: The kanary-nut may be considered equal to a hazel-nut, but I have met with nothing else superior to our crabs, our haws, beech-nuts, wild plums, and acorns; fruits which would be highly esteemed by the natives of these islands, and would form an important part of their sustenance.
gloss: A hedge.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Something that has little value or importance; a whit or jot.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: wele not leaue a man of lawe,
Nor a paper worth a hawe,
And make him worſe than a dawe,
That ſhall ſtand againſt Iacke Strawe.
Derived words: gee and haw
haw-haw
hee-haw
hee haw
yaw-haw
yee-haw
gee haw whimmy diddle
apple haw
black haw
crimson haw
downy haw
Haw Creek
Haweater
hawthorn
haw tree
hog's haw
mayhaw
parsley haw
pear haw
possum haw
possumhaw
purple haw
red haw
rose haw
scarlet haw
Shawnee haw
summer haw
swamp haw
Translations:
cull
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English cullen, cuilen, coilen, from Old French cuillir (“collect, gather, select”), from Latin colligō (“gather together”). Doublet of coil.
Inflected forms:
form: culls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: culling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: culled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: culled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: culls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
pos: verb
examples: 1984, cover star: JOE DALLESANDRO culled from Andy Warhol's FLESH — anonymous; sleeve notes from The Smiths' eponymous album
gloss: To gather, collect.
pos: verb
examples: [T]he yellowbanded bees, / Through half-open lattices / Coming in the scented breeze, / Fed thee, a child, lying alone, / With whitest honey in fairy gardens culled— […]
Chaucer's prose Tale of Melibee […] is a dialectal homily of moral debate, exhibiting a learned store of ethical precept culled from many ancient authorities.
gloss: To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
pos: verb
gloss: To kill (animals, etc).
pos: verb
tags: broadly
gloss: To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
pos: verb
gloss: To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
pos: verb
examples: back-face culling
"Will cull any objects further from the camera than a given distance. When used in combination with camera frustum culling, this can be used to avoid culling nearby objects that are outside the camera frustum, but still visible in reflections. It is also useful to cull small objects far from the camera."
gloss: A selection.
pos: noun
gloss: An organized killing of selected animals.
pos: noun
examples: It seemed that the sun shone and all was right in our Blakean islands until the government began to set in motion its promised cull of badgers in an effort to control bovine TB. Salvation for brock came in the form of an online petition started by Queen guitarist Brian May, the rising costs of the programme and the weather.
gloss: An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
pos: noun
gloss: A lobster having only one claw.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
pos: noun
Derived words: cullable
culler
Culpepper
overcull
unculled
Translations:
autodidact
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos), from αὐτός (autós, “self”) + διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach”). By surface analysis, auto- + didact.
Inflected forms:
form: autodidacts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A self-taught person.
pos: noun
examples: Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest autodidacts.
For an autodidact, for somebody who plays by ear like me, the ukulele is ideal.
Translations:
emo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
fashion
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Clipping of emotional. Compound emocore first attested in 1986. Word emo first attested in 1988.
Inflected forms:
form: emos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more emo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most emo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional; a broadly encompassing genre of rock music characterized by expressive, often confessional lyrics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional; a broadly encompassing genre of rock music characterized by expressive, often confessional lyrics.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional; a broadly encompassing genre of rock music characterized by expressive, often confessional lyrics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional; a broadly encompassing genre of rock music characterized by expressive, often confessional lyrics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An individual presenting as such, intentionally or otherwise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An individual presenting as such, intentionally or otherwise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An individual presenting as such, intentionally or otherwise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An individual presenting as such, intentionally or otherwise.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
derogatory
gloss: Associated with youth subcultures which are associated with the above-mentioned musical genre(s) and with emotional sensitivity.
pos: adj
examples: The one thing everyone agrees on is that they've never encountered a band that claimed to be emo.
Trevor looks kind of emo, rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.
gloss: Emotional, sensitive, or contemplative; regardless of musical preference or subcultural affiliation.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
derogatory
informal
often
gloss: Depressed.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
informal
examples: Criticism drapes a black velvet cape across the puddle that interrupts the path to change, to be emo about it.
gloss: Exhibiting a fashion or visual aesthetic associated with the subculture; a presentation deliberately or unintentionally incorporating dark clothing, asymmetrical haircuts covering one eye, studded accessories, and often borrowing elements from gothic fashion, Burtonesque macabre, or brightly colored scene or geek aesthetics.
pos: adj
examples: Hot Topic is historically recognized as the go-to mall emo store, particularly during the 2000s, serving as a primary hub for alternative, scene, and punk fashion, music merch, and accessories like studded belts.
Related words: emo skink
Derived words: emo bangs
emokid
emo metal
emoness
emophobe
emo pop
emo rap
emotard
emotronic
emotronica
mall emo
Midwest emo
screamo
Translations:
theocracy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From theo- + -cracy, originally from Ancient Greek θεοκρατία (theokratía, “rule of (a) God”), a term coined in the 1st century by Josephus (Against Apion 2.17) in reference to the ancient Israelite polity under the Mosaic covenant. Attested in English from the 1620s, first by John Donne in A Sermon upon the fifth of November 1622. being the Anniversary celebration of our Deliverance from the Powder Treason: "The Jews were onely under a Theocratie, an immediate government of God..."
Base: theo
Inflected forms:
form: theocracies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Government under the control of a state religion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: clericocracy
Tibet was a Buddhist theocracy ruled by the Dalai Lama prior to Chinese annexation.
The Vatican City State is a sovereign city-state and a Christian theocracy ruled by the Pope.
Lynch certainly seems to think to. “We feel liberated from the prism of the past,” he says. “Ireland was a theocracy.”
gloss: Rule by a god.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:theocracy.
Related words: theocrat
theocratic
Translations:
niggardly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English niggard
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English niggardly
From niggard + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: more niggardly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most niggardly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.
pos: adj
examples: [W]here the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly.
They were not niggardly, these tramps, and he who had money did not hesitate to share it among the rest.
This manifests itself in an implacable tendency to provide an opulent supply of some things and a niggardly yield of others.
gloss: Conceding few runs (of a bowler).
pos: adj
Derived words: niggardlily
niggardliness
unniggardly
Translations:
rugby
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the name of Rugby School in Rugby, in Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, where the modern game was developed in the 19th century. The place name Rugby is attested in the Domesday Book as Old English Rocheberie (probably equivalent to rook (“Corvus frugilegus, a bird of the crow family”) + -by (suffix indicating a village or town)), possibly from *Hrōcebyriġ, dative singular of *Hrōceburh, from hrōc (“rook”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“to crow”)) + burh, burg (“castle, fort, stronghold; city; town”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“hill, mountain; high, lofty; to rise”)).
Base: rook
Affixes: -by
Inflected forms:
form: rugbies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rugbying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rugbied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rugbied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To play rugby.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
orgasm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French orgasme or New Latin orgasmus, from Ancient Greek ὀργασμός (orgasmós, “excitement, swelling”), from ὀργάω (orgáō, “to swell with moisture”).
Inflected forms:
form: orgasms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: orgasms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: orgasming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: orgasmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: orgasmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A spasm or sudden contraction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Hence simple fevers are of two kinds; first, the febris irritativa, or fever with strong pulse, which consists of a previous torpor of the heart, arteries, and capillaries, and a succeeding orgasm of those vessels.
gloss: A rush of sexual excitement; now specifically, the climax or peak of sexual pleasure, which occurs during sexual activity and which in males may include ejaculation and in females vaginal contractions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Never had I experienced such an immense slow orgasm – its ripples ran like the tributaries of the Nile throughout the whole nervous system.
There does not have to be romance involved with sexual pleasure: some of us just like orgasms for the hell of it.
gloss: A creamy white alcoholic cocktail containing amaretto, Irish cream, and coffee liqueur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To have an orgasm.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: acme
big O
completion
happy ending
pleasure
release
satisfaction
climax
Related words: orgastic
afterglow
postgasm
-gasm
Derived words: airgasm
dry orgasm
fauxgasm
-gasm
Gorbasm
head orgasm
multiorgasm
multiorgasmic
multiorgasmically
multiple orgasm
orgasmatron
orgasm balls
orgasm gap
orgasmic
orgasmically
orgasmless
orgasmlike
orgasm shot
ruined orgasm
screaming orgasm
skin orgasm
snoregasm
superorgasm
yogasm
Translations:
spoofing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: spoofings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Falsifying one's identity or other identifying information (e.g. location) by technical means to deceive or gain access.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A method of attacking a computer program, in which the program is modified so as to appear to be working normally when in reality it has been modified with the purpose of circumventing security mechanisms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Phishing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antispoofing
pseudospoofing
Translations:
Abe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A shortening from Abraham. In the slang sense for money, refers to the picture of Abraham Lincoln on the currency.
Inflected forms:
form: Abes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A five-dollar bill.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: "Gambling's not my form of masochism," said Carl. "Huh?" "So how much?" "The wad's mostly ones. Some Jeffersons. Two or three Abes."
Translations:
wry
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wrien, from Old English wrīġian (“to go, turn, twist, bend, strive, struggle, press forward, endeavor, venture”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to turn, wrap, tie”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Compare awry, wriggle.
Inflected forms:
form: wrier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wryer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wryest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wrying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
pos: adj
examples: '"Why, you snivelling, wry-faced, puny villain," gasped old Lobbs.
“Humph! Had to,” said Pep with a wry grimace.
gloss: Dryly humorous; sardonic or ironic, usually in a way that suggests acknowledgement of a problem or difficult situation.
pos: adj
examples: "[T]he master says a wry word now and then; and so ye let your spirits go down, don't ye see, and all sorts o' fancies comes into your head."
gloss: Twisted, bent, crooked.
pos: adj
gloss: Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.
pos: adj
examples: Catherine hath made a wry stitch in her broidery, when she was thinking of something else than her work.
. . . the wry rigour of our neighbours, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application.
gloss: To turn (away); to swerve or deviate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: God pricketh them of his great goodness still. And the grief of this great pang pincheth them at the heart, and of wickedness they wry away.
You married ones,
If each of you should take this course, how many
Must murder wives much better than themselves
For wrying but a little!
gloss: To divert; to cause to turn away.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: awry
wry-billed plover
wryly
go awry
Translations:
cinch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Occitan cencha, from Latin cincta, or from Spanish cincha (“a belt or girth”), from Late Latin cingula, from Latin cingulum. Doublet of cingle.
Inflected forms:
form: cinches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cinches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cinching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cinched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cinched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
pos: noun
examples: He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question.
gloss: Something that is very easy to do.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that.
The job was a snap. I travelled the country averaging a thousand miles a week and, since the previous incumbent had been a lazy bugger, managed to treble the business. It was a cinch.
gloss: Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: As a matter of fact, from the look of Elmer's shoulder, it wasn't a cinch that he would ever pitch again.
gloss: A firm hold.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: You've got the cinch on him. You could send him to quod, and I'd send him there as quick as lightning. I'd hang him, if I could, for what he done to Lil Sarnia.
gloss: To bring to certain conclusion.
pos: verb
gloss: To tighten down.
pos: verb
examples: He let Sandy stand for a minute and then took the saddle off. Several more of these saddlings and unsaddlings followed. Then finally the saddle was cinched. Again Sandy repeated his pattern of calming down after the first unfamiliarity of a new experience had worn off. […] Before long Sandy accepted the saddle as if he’d been born with one on his back.
[Ostriches] also lack the tiny hooks, or barbicels, that cinch feathers together in most other birds.
In our tiny 30-foot schooner, the 40-foot (think four stories high) waves looked more like giant mountains hurtling at us. I cinched the straps on my lifejacket a bit tighter and held on for dear life.
Synonyms: breeze
Derived words: Hungarian cinch
lead-pipe cinch
cinchable
cincher
cinchy
uncinch
Translations:
anhedonia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From French anhédonie (coined by Ribot, 1896), from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-) + ἡδονή (hēdonḗ, “pleasure”).
Inflected forms:
form: anhedonias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The inability to feel pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, such as exercise, hobbies, music, sexual activities or social interactions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Prolonged seasickness will in most persons produce a temporary condition of anhedonia. Every good, terrestrial or celestial, is imagined only to be turned from with disgust.
Rather, Meehl suggests that anhedonia is a manifestation of the mixed signals to which the preschizophrenic individual is subjected because of the neurointegrative deficit.
Secondly, the distinction between consummatory and anticipatory anhedonia [21] is not taken into account although these two anhedonias could play different role in the risk of suicide.
Anhedonia is the reduced ability to experience pleasure from activities that were previously found to be enjoyable. Anhedonia can induce diminished motivation to engage in a potentially pleasurable activity (anticipatory anhedonia) and loss of the enjoyment experienced from the action itself (consummatory anhedonia).
Translations:
alternatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin alternātīvusder.
Middle French alternatifbor.
English alternative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English alternatively
From alternative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: in an alternative way
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Observers should keep in mind that these efforts at living alternatively are not easily undertaken; indeed, if they were, more people would be doing what they do.
Thus, we are creating a new class struggle between those who live within the social system and those who are marginalized or wish to live alternatively.
Devising obviously asks for what we understand as general creativity, like the ability to take an initiative, to invent, to think alternatively, to associate interestingly, to create metaphors and images.
Most people living alternatively have strong pro-environmental values and, unlike many 'greens' in mainstream society, are generally able to apply their values in day-to-day life.
gloss: Used to link a pair of opposing possibilities.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
not-comparable
Translations: