yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
memento
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mementō (“remember”), imperative form of meminī (“to remember”).
Inflected forms:
form: mementos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mementoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.
pos: noun
examples: I kept the shell as a memento of my visit to the seashore.
In conclusion, I would remark that the great railway stations of London deserve to be visited every whit as much as St. Paul's Cathedral, the Abbey, or the Tower, and they are as worthy a memento of this century as those buildings are of the days that are gone.
Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.
Translations:
gatherer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
business
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: From Middle English gaderere, gaderare, equivalent to gather + -er.
Base: gather
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: gatherers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who gathers things.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who gathers things.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who collects rent or taxes.
pos: noun
gloss: An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
pos: noun
gloss: A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.
pos: noun
Derived words: firewood-gatherer
hunter-gatherer
newsgatherer
pure gatherer
snow-gatherer
taxgatherer
tax gatherer
tollgatherer
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: جَانٍ
roman: jānin
lang: Czech
word: sběrač
lang: Danish
word: samler
lang: Finnish
word: keräilijä
lang: French
word: cueilleur
lang: French
word: glaneur
lang: French
word: glaneuse
lang: French
word: ramasseur
lang: French
word: ramasseuse
lang: German
word: Sammler
lang: Hungarian
word: szedő
lang: Irish
word: tiomsaitheoir
lang: Irish
word: bailitheoir
lang: Italian
word: coglitore
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жыйноочу
roman: jıynoocu
lang: Latin
word: legulus
lang: Manx
word: teiyder
lang: Portuguese
word: coletor
lang: Romanian
word: adunător
lang: Russian
word: собира́тель
roman: sobirátelʹ
lang: Russian
word: собира́тельница
roman: sobirátelʹnica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ску̀пља̄ч
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: саку̀пља̄ч
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: skùpljāč
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sakùpljāč
lang: Spanish
word: recolector
lang: Swedish
word: samlare
lang: Ukrainian
word: збира́ч
roman: zbyráč
lang: Ukrainian
word: збира́чка
roman: zbyráčka
evilly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From evil + -ly, replacing earlier evil (“evilly”).
Base: evil
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more evilly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most evilly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an evil manner.
pos: adv
examples: He grinned evilly around and then pushed his way to the back of the crowd.
Translations:
hunter-gatherer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hunter
English gatherer
English hunter-gatherer
From hunter + gatherer.
Inflected forms:
form: hunter-gatherers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.
pos: noun
examples: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
[…] Wengrow and Graeber argue that the life of hunter-gatherers before widespread farming was nothing like “the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory,” which hold that early humans lived in small bands in which they acted almost entirely on instinct, either brutish (as in Hobbes) or egalitarian and innocent (as in Rousseau).
“DNA from hunter-gatherers is present at higher levels in Northeastern Europe, which means the region has an elevated genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,” Barrie said.
Translations:
angler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English angler, angleer, angeler, equivalent to angle + -er.
Base: angle
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: anglers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who fishes with a hook and line.
pos: noun
examples: A throng of anglers lined the trout stream on opening day of trout season.
gloss: An anglerfish, Lophius piscatorius.
pos: noun
examples: The angler lured a smaller fish into reach with the appendage on its head.
gloss: Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive.
pos: noun
examples: Jonas was a consummate angler when it came the company's leave policy; he had it figured so he only needed to work six months out of the year.
gloss: A thief who uses a hooked stick to steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
examples: They are sure to be clyd in the night by the angler, or hooker, or such like pilferers that liue upon the spoyle of other poore people.
Rogue or rascal, frater, maunderer, / Irish Toyle, or other wanderer; / No dimber damber, angler, dancer, / Prig of cackler, prig of prancer
Synonyms: fishing frog
frogfish
monkfish
sea devil
sea frog
Related words: angling
Derived words: anglerette
Anglers Reach
nonangler
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: ulteriorator
lang: Spanish
word: ulterioratriz
huntress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: A variant of hunteress, from Middle English hunteras, hunteres, hunteresse, equivalent to hunter + -ess, possibly on the model of the likes of mistress.
Base: hunter
Affixes: -ess
Inflected forms:
form: huntresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hunteress
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A female hunter.
pos: noun
tags: literary
examples: In those same woods ye well remember may / How that a noble hunteress did wonne [...].
Ashol-Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country's only apprentice huntress.
Grief and fear cannot rule you;
let them be your faithful servants, protective of their mistress.
Loss serves a huntress like fuel serves fire.
Translations:
huntsman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hunt
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 huntsman
From hunt + -s- + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: huntsmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: huntsmans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hunter.
pos: noun
examples: The huntsman spoke Davey’s lingo.
gloss: A fox hunter.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: One who manages the hounds during a hunt.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the many species of large spiders of the family Sparassidae.
pos: noun
examples: Although they do not make webs, female huntsmans at least have not lost the ability to produce silk.
The majority of desert-dwelling spiders are large burrowing spiders; the Barking Spiders Selenoeosmia stirlingi, mouse spiders, wolf spiders (Fig. 5.47), huntsmen and trapdoor spiders (Fig. 5.48).
to say trapdoors and huntsmans
Two huntsmen spiders prowl Harry′s bedroom ceiling.
After the huntsman raced across my windscreen, I had an arachnophobic meltdown on the side of the road.
Related words: hunt
Hunter
hunter
hunting
huntress
Huntress
Huntsman
Derived words: huntsmanship
huntsman spider
Translations:
witch-hunt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From witch + hunt.
Compound parts: witch
hunt
Inflected forms:
form: witch-hunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: witchhunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: witch hunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: witch-hunts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: witch-hunting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: witch-hunted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: witch-hunted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: witchhunt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: witch hunt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: To-night ye will see. It is the great witch-hunt, and many will be smelt out as wizards and slain.
Simpkins told us that before the days of English witch hunts, the coven organised public and popular festivities such as on the great days of May Eve, Hallowe'en, Candlemas and Lammas. These were called Witches' Sabbats or Frolics.
The rupturing of British rule over India in the rebellion of 1857 permitted a great witch-hunt, with lethal effects, to occur among the tribes of northern India.
gloss: An attempt to find and punish or harass a group of people perceived as a threat, usually on ideological or political grounds.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Rank-and-file Communists everywhere are led away on a senseless witch-hunt after 'Trotskyists'.
gloss: A public or political campaign or investigation which smears a person or group.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Even fewer people could believe that the UNCW administration would actually undertake a witch hunt against me, even going so far as to invoke their right to read my personal e-mails because they were on the university's system.
I defended myself vigorously on that complaint as well; also mentioning that Julie Ann Wilks had always disliked me and had been conducting “a witch hunt” against me. As soon as I said the words “witch hunt” Katy interrupted and wouldn't let me continue […]
The media is really on a witch-hunt against me. False reporting, and plenty of it - but we will prevail!
“It is striking how poorly his usual playbook will work for the Epstein files debacle,” Ford wrote, adding that Trump “cannot credibly claim that he is the victim of some kind of ‘witch hunt,’ even though he is trying to do so.”
gloss: To perform a witch-hunt.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Related words: witch hunter
witch-hunting
witch-hunty
Translations:
consumed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Full of, exuding (also figuratively).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She was consumed with hatred.
Translations:
jocular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin iocularis, from ioculus (“a little jest”), diminutive of iocus (“a jest”).
Inflected forms:
form: more jocular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jocular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Humorous, amusing or joking.
pos: adj
examples: He was in a jocular mood all day.
All we had was a short and jocular conversation.
From the tone of the speaker, the last words might be understood to be jocular.
Sometimes he would notice it, pat it, call it half-mocking, half-jocular names, and so make it caper with extraordinary delight.
Then papa began to get very tired of Jones, and fidgeted and finally said, with jocular irony, that Jones had better stay all night, they could give him a shake-down.
Antonyms: heartfelt
serious
sincere
Translations:
Anabaptist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From New Latin anabaptista, from the Ancient Greek ἀναβαπτισμός (anabaptismós), itself from ἀνα- (ana-, “re-”) and βαπτισμός (baptismós, “baptism”), equivalent to ana- + Baptist.
Base: Baptist
Affixes: ana-
Inflected forms:
form: Anabaptists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anabaptist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more Anabaptist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Anabaptist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: anabaptist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a radical wing of Christians during the Protestant Reformation, with a tenet of adult baptism.
pos: noun
examples: Were the Anabaptists right? Was happiness Satan’s allure, his tantalizing deceit?
gloss: A member of any of several present-day churches descended from that origin.
pos: noun
gloss: Relating to Anabaptism or the Anabaptists during the Protestant Reformation.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to Anabaptism or the Anabaptists of the present-day.
pos: adj
Translations:
heyday
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late 16th century, from earlier heyda (1520s), as exclamation – compare hey, hei. Sense “period of success, vigor” is a respelling as heyday based on unrelated day (as “period of time”) – compare day in the sun.
Inflected forms:
form: heydays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A period of success, popularity, or power; prime.
pos: noun
examples: The early twentieth century was the heyday of the steam locomotive.
Must your hot ytch and plurisie of lust, The heyday of your luxury, be fedd Up to a surfeite, and could none but I Be pickt out to be cloake to your close tricks, Your belly-sports?
She started learning the craft at age 13 from her father, who founded the family's tile business, Kam Fat Mahjong, in 1962. Masters who would visit Hong Kong during its manufacturing heyday in the 1970s and 80s also shared their techniques and trained apprentices.
There has been a marked shift in viewing habits since the channels’ heyday, with music videos now more commonly consumed on YouTube and social media rather than television.
gloss: An exultation of the spirits; gaiety; frolic.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A lively greeting.
pos: intj
examples: "Heyday, Miss Morland!" said he. "What is the meaning of this? I thought you and I were to dance together."
gloss: An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
pos: intj
tags: obsolete
examples: "Come follow me, my wags, and say, as I say. There's no riches but in rags; hey day, hey day, &c."
Bass. Heydey! good words, good words, I must beleeue'em And be a Coxcombe for my labor.
Here Jones, having ordered a servant to show a room above stairs, was ascending, when the dishevelled fair, hastily following, was laid hold on by the master of the house, who cried, “Heyday, where is that beggar wench going? Stay below stairs, I desire you.”
Synonyms: day in the sun
glory days
golden age
golden years
good old days
Related words: hey
Translations:
padding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pad
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English padding
From pad + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: paddings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Anything of little value used to fill up space.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
But to my intense surprise, on getting down early the next morning, and eagerly opening the newspapers, there was not a word about the arrest! There was a column of mere padding about “The Styles Poisoning Case,” but nothing further. It was rather inexplicable, but I supposed that, for some reason or other, Japp wished to keep it out of the papers.
gloss: The process of mordanting a fabric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A diaper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Robbing on a highway.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Derived words: laughter padding
padding-ken
stat padding
underpadding
Translations:
backbite
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bakbiten, bacbiten, equivalent to back- + bite. Cognate with Icelandic bakbíta (“to backbite, vilify”).
Base: bite
Affixes: back-
Inflected forms:
form: backbites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backbiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backbit
pos: verb
tags: past
form: backbitten
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: back-bite
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: backbites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: back-bite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
pos: verb
examples: They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way.
Gumshoe: You're not gonna get me to backbite a woman with a whip. No way.
gloss: To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
pos: verb
tags: informal
gloss: To speak badly of an absent individual.
pos: verb
gloss: One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.
pos: noun
Related words: behind someone's back
Derived words: backbiter
backbiting
Translations:
gobsmacked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: As if smacked (“hit”) in the gob (“mouth (Irish / Scottish gaelic)”).
Attested since 1959, from Northern English dialect, particularly Liverpool, popularized via television.
Inflected forms:
form: more gobsmacked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gobsmacked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Flabbergasted, astounded, speechless, overawed.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: That wad mack im about yam sick, so ower Ilkla' moor bar-tat wish un best of luck at Ilkley Station, and when he landed back Martha wad be fare gob smacked at the yarns he wad tell 'er about Yorkshire clod-hoppers.
We were as appalled and stunned and confused and gobsmacked (punched on the mouth) as anyone else.
"I guess the word would be gobsmacked," Barclay said, of his reaction. "I am stunned."
Peterik told CNN that the use of the song caught him by surprise.
“I was gobsmacked,” he said. “We were not asked about this at all. The first time we saw it was on national TV.”
Far from the stage, a woman approached them and said she could tell they were big fans, so she was upgrading them to the front row. “We were absolutely gobsmacked,” Ryan said.
A hospital consultant who treated Sergei and Yulia Skripal after they were poisoned with the nerve agent novichok was “gobsmacked” when Yulia woke and began trying to get out of bed four days after the attack.
Translations:
triplet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From triple + -et.
Base: triple
Affixes: -et
Inflected forms:
form: triplets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of three, particularly
pos: noun
gloss: A set of three, particularly
pos: noun
gloss: A set of three, particularly
pos: noun
gloss: A set of three, particularly
pos: noun
gloss: One of a group of three, particularly
pos: noun
gloss: One of a group of three, particularly
pos: noun
Synonyms: trio
Related words: single
solo
double
twofold
triple
threefold
quadruple
fourfold
quintuple
pentuple
fivefold
loner
singleton
monad
pair
couple
twosome
duo
dyad
trio
threesome
triad
troika
foursome
quartet
tetrad
fivesome
quintet
pentad
only one
singlet
twin
one of two
doublet
triplet
one of three
quadruplet
one of four
quintuplet
pentuplet
one of five
sextuple
hextuple
sixfold
septuple
heptuple
sevenfold
octuple
eightfold
ninefold
nonuple
tenfold
decuple
sixsome
sextet
hexad
sevensome
septet
heptad
eightsome
octet
octad
ninesome
nonet
ennead
tensome
decet
decad
sextuplet
hextuplet
one of six
one of seven
septuplet
heptuplet
octuplet
one of eight
one of nine
nonuplet
one of ten
decuplet
elevenfold
undecuple
hendecuple
twelvefold
duodecuple
thirteenfold
tredecuple
a hundredfold
centuple
multiple
elevensome
twelvesome
thirteensome
hundredsome
one of eleven
undecuplet
hendecuplet
one of twelve
duodecuplet
one of thirteen
tredecuplet
one of a hundred
centuplet
one of many
multiplet
Derived words: antitriplet
bitriplet
Cooke triplet
isotriplet
linear triplet
prime triplet
triplet oxygen
triplon
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: тро́йка
roman: trójka
lang: Bulgarian
word: три́плет
roman: tríplet
lang: Danish
word: trio
lang: Dutch
word: trio
lang: Esperanto
word: triopo
lang: Finnish
word: kolmikko
lang: French
word: triplet
lang: German
word: Trio
lang: German
word: Tripel
lang: German
word: Triplett
lang: Hebrew
word: שְׁלִישִׁיָּה
roman: shlishiyá
lang: Hungarian
word: hármas
lang: Hungarian
word: trió
lang: Italian
word: tripletta
lang: Japanese
word: 三つ組
roman: mitsu-gumi
lang: Māori
word: tokotoru
lang: Norwegian
word: trio
lang: Portuguese
word: trio
lang: Portuguese
word: trinca
lang: Portuguese
word: terceto
lang: Portuguese
word: tríade
lang: Romanian
word: trio
lang: Russian
word: тро́йка
roman: trójka
lang: Russian
word: трипле́т
roman: triplét
lang: Russian
word: тро́йня
roman: trójnja
lang: Russian
word: три́о
roman: trío
lang: Spanish
word: trío
lang: Spanish
word: triplete
lang: Spanish
word: tripleta
lang: Spanish
word: trinca
lang: Swedish
word: trio
lang: Esperanto
word: triopano
lang: Finnish
word: yksi kolmesta
lang: Finnish
word: kolmikon jäsen
lang: French
word: l'un des trois
lang: Norwegian
word: en av tre
lang: Spanish
word: uno del trío
coincide
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French coïncider, from Medieval Latin coincidere, from con- + incidere, from in- (“into, to”) + cadere (“to fall, fall down, drop”).
Inflected forms:
form: coincides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coinciding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coincided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coincided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To occupy exactly the same space.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The two squares coincide nicely.
gloss: To occur at the same time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The conference will coincide with his vacation.
The last train ran on December 31, 1932, almost unnoticed, for it coincided with the running of the last steam passenger train down the main line from London to Brighton, a much more momentous event.
gloss: To correspond, concur, or agree.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Our ideas coincide, except in certain areas.
Related words: simultaneous
Derived words: coincidence
coincident
coincider
coincidingly
noncoinciding
Translations:
unroll
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software-compilation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Latin rotulader.
Latin rotulāre
Old French roelerbor.
Middle English rollen
English roll
English unroll
From un- + roll.
Inflected forms:
form: unrolls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unrolling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unrolled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unrolled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent.
gloss: To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We will have to see how the events unroll.
gloss: To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: unfold
unfurl
Translations:
engrossed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more engrossed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most engrossed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Preoccupied with something to the exclusion of everything else.
pos: adj
examples: The children were engrossed by the story.
The large, soft dark eyes were raised, but seemed rather engrossed by their own feelings—(thoughts are scarcely tender enough for such a look)—than fixed upon any surrounding object.
[Yann] LeCun's in a jovial mood, and I find myself engrossed in his colorful stories about the early years of AI research.
gloss: Finalized, written in large letters. (of a document)
pos: adj
Derived words: engrossed amendment
overengrossed
unengrossed
Translations:
flim-flam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately a sound-symbolic reduplication, 1538 as noun, 1660 as verb. Perhaps from a dialectal word or North Germanic/Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim (“lampoon, mockery”).
Inflected forms:
form: flim-flams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flimflam
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flim flam
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Most reports of supernatural occurrences turn out to be flim-flam when carefully investigated.
gloss: Confidence game, con game.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Those who got the joke understood that all of the city’s talk of ideas and principles was flimflam to conceal self-enrichment at the public’s expense. Those who didn’t, didn’t.
gloss: Table tennis.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Derived words: flim-flam man
flam
flim
Translations:
bellyache
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From belly + ache.
Compound parts: belly
ache
Inflected forms:
form: bellyaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bellyaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bellyaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bellyached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bellyached
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any pain in the belly, stomach, or abdomen.
pos: noun
examples: Eating too much candy can give you a bellyache.
gloss: To unnecessarily complain or whine, often about simple matters.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
informal
intransitive
examples: Quit bellyaching about the problem and help us fix it.
Translations:
no-no
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: no-nos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: no-noes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: no no
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something that is forbidden, prohibited, discouraged or taboo.
pos: noun
tags: childish
colloquial
often
examples: Smoking indoors is becoming a real no-no these days, in many places.
Mr. UDALL. Madam Chairman, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Bingham), is wrong in his supposition that the use of a picture is to be prohibited on a newsletter. Let me make some legislative history. The masthead or the heading of a newsletter with a picture of the Member is intended to be approved. As a matter of fact, in this language we turned it around. These no-noes are taken out of the old Post Office Manual, where they had over the years compiled a list of things one could or could not do, and pictures, except to illustrate text, used to be under the prohibitions.
And a person of integrity observes all the good sportsmanship rules toward a beaten opponent. Integrity recognizes the integrity of other persons. To do otherwise would be to commit a no-no. And you don’t want to go around committing no-noes, do you?
Countless issues arise in family life every day, from the litany of no-noes showered on the toddler, to calling the preschooler in for his lunch.
gloss: A no-hitter; a game in which no batter on one of the teams got a hit.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: He threw two no-nos in his career.
Antonyms: must
Related words: no-no boy
no-no square
Translations:
effrontery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From late 17th century French effronterie, from effronté (“shameless, insolent”), from Old French esfronté, from Vulgar Latin *exfrontātus. Compare Latin effrōns (“barefaced”), from the prefix ex- (“from”) + frōns (“forehead”) (English: front). By surface analysis, ef- + front + -er + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: effronteries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Insolent and shameless audacity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We even had the effrontery to suggest that he should leave the country.
Let not the Englishman in Scotland believe that the undoffed hat, the curt reply, the apparent assumption of equality, all spring from deliberate effrontery, and are wholly beyond the reach of southern influence.
gloss: An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery.
All was going as planned until the bag hit a snag and failed to surround the entire nest. This effrontery was too much. The wasps exploded off the nest at me.
Related words: affront
Translations:
binocular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French binoculairebor.
English binocular
Borrowed from French binoculaire.
Inflected forms:
form: binoculars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Using two eyes or viewpoints; especially, using two eyes or viewpoints to ascertain distance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a binocular microscope or telescope
Most animals are binocular.
our perception of distance arises from the geometry of binocular vision and our early learning seems based on calculating probabilities.
gloss: A pair of binoculars.
pos: noun
examples: He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
gloss: Any binocular glass, such as an opera glass, telescope, or microscope.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Related words: binoculars
Translations:
tip-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tip offdeverb.
English tip-off
Deverbal from tip off.
Inflected forms:
form: tip-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tipoff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An obvious clue or indication.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: The broken window and overturned plant pots were a tip-off that something was wrong.
gloss: A report of suspicious behaviour, especially to an authority.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: The police received a tip-off about a recent bank robbery.
Haws also alleged that Hay was engaged in a conspiracy to disrupt the parade. "People called a week before and said he would be doing something." The alleged tip-off was anonymous.
Related words: tip off
Translations:
masthead
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
media
nautical
television
transport
Etymology: From mast + head.
Compound parts: mast
head
Inflected forms:
form: mastheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mastheads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mastheading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mastheaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mastheaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The top of a mast.
pos: noun
examples: In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost simultaneously with the vessel’s leaving her port; even though she may have fifteen thousand miles, and more, to sail ere reaching her proper cruising ground.
gloss: A list of a newspaper or other periodical's main staff, contributing writers, publisher, circulation, advertising rates etc.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The title (normally in a large and distinctive font) of a newspaper or other periodical at the top of the front page; (by extension) the publication itself or the rights to it.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
examples: Maree said she felt worse after articles were written about the video, including by this masthead.
gloss: The logo of a broadcaster used in an ident.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: To send to the masthead as a punishment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “I was mast-headed, sir.”
“Mast-headed! how - for what?”
When the ship happened to be in a warm climate, mastheading constituted a fairly mild punishment; indeed, many regarded it as rather a relief from duty. But in inclement weather the experience was most unpleasant.
gloss: To furnish (a newspaper) with a masthead.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was mastheaded as "Palatka's Only Independent Home-Owned Newspaper."
Related words: letterhead
Derived words: masthead sloop
Translations:
badge-cove
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: badge-coves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A parish pensioner.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A licensed (badged) beggar.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An old person; a senior citizen.
pos: noun
tags: Polari
Synonyms: oldster
senior citizen
Translations:
balsam
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek βάλσαμον (bálsamon, “balsam”), of Semitic origin (Hebrew בושם (“spice, perfume”)); compare Old English balsam, balsamum (“balsam, balm”), Doublet of balm and desman. Not related to balsa.
Inflected forms:
form: balsams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: balsem
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: balsum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: balsome
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: balsams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: balsaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: balsamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: balsamed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: balsem
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: balsum
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: balsome
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from various plants.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: A plant or tree yielding such substance.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: A soothing ointment.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: Something soothing.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Classical music is a sweet balsam for our sorrows
gloss: A flowering plant of the genus Impatiens.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The balsam family of flowering plants (Balsaminaceae), which includes Impatiens and Hydrocera.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A balsam fir Abies balsamea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Canada balsam, a turpentine obtained from the resin of balsam fir.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To treat or anoint with balsam.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: balm
balsamate
balsamation
Balsaminaceae
balsamine
balsamise
balsamitic
balsamize
balsamo
balsamous
balsamum
opobalsam
opobalsamum
xylobalsamum
Derived words: Abraham's balsam
balsamaceous
balsam apple
balsamarium
balsam Canada
balsamed
balsam fir
balsamic
balsamical
balsamiferous
Balsamina
balsamint
balsam-mint
Balsam Lake
balsam of Acouchi
balsam of aniseed
balsam of Copaiba
balsam of fir
balsam of Gilead
balsam of Judea
balsam of Mecca
balsam of Peru
balsam of saturn
balsam of steel
balsam of sulfur
balsam of sulphur
balsam of Tolu
balsam oil
balsam pear
balsam poplar
balsam ragwort
balsamroot
balsam spurge
balsam-tansy
balsam tree
balsamweed
balsam willow
balsamy
Canada balsam
friar's balsam
garden balsam
Himalayan balsam
imbalsamation
Mecca balsam
Peruvian balsam
Tolu balsam
true balsam
Turlington's balsam
Umiri balsam
Wade's balsam
wild balsam apple
yellow balsam
Translations:
gherkin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion, “cucumber”). The underlying Dutch form may be a diminutive (gurkijn) or perhaps more probably the plural (gurken), which was then associated with the English suffix -kin (itself incidentally from Dutch or Low German). Compare German Gurke.
Inflected forms:
form: gherkins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gerkin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A small cucumber, often pickled whole.
pos: noun
gloss: Pickled cucumber regardless of size; a pickle
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: “Even my gherkin is sorry, and it didn't talk shit about anybody," persists Adrian. The edge of Titus's mouth quivers in laughter.
“Yes, daddy,” I moaned, lying big-time as his finger played in my sudsy pussy. “Say please,” he ordered, taking my hand to circle around his gherkin.
His gherkin was doing the tent dance, and he couldn't have been prouder.
Derived words: burr gherkin
jerkin the gherkin
jerk the gherkin
sea gherkin
West Indian gherkin
Translations:
jingoistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jingo
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -istic
English jingoistic
From jingo + -istic.
Inflected forms:
form: more jingoistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jingoistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Overly patriotic or nationalistic, often with an element of favouring war or an aggressive foreign policy.
pos: adj
examples: My editorial angered both the jingoistic war hawks and the anti-war protesters.
The truth is that all classes—Christian and non-Christian—have yielded fatally to the pernicious interpretation which interested politicians, soldiers, manufacturers, and Jingoistic writers have put on the real economic needs of the country.
All this jingoistic bombast, however, was directed toward defending, not so much the national vernacular as the national belles lettres.
If we continue to be limited to our exceedingly fragile existence on spaceship Earth, a natural disaster or our own jingoistic or ecological foolhardiness is almost certain to terminate our existence perhaps centuries or millenia^([sic – meaning millennia]) from today.
But are these Olympics also destined to become a jingoistic, flag-waving convention, a world-alienating Patriot Games?
This approach plays fast and loose with ordinary people's livelihoods. Yet still, with jingoistic horns and trumpets drowning out the roar of the deep, the stampede towards the cliff's edge gathers pace.
Antonyms: dovish
unjingoistic
Translations:
raya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rayas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: raia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A former territory of the mediaeval principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia held under the direct administration of the Ottoman Empire, as opposed to the principalities.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
barker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From Middle English berkere; equivalent to bark (“dog noise”) + -er.
Base: bark
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: barkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something who barks.
pos: noun
examples: My neighbor's dog is a constant barker that keeps me awake at night.
Edmund was barker on sight, like foolish stay-at-home dogs.
gloss: A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
pos: noun
examples: Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.
[…
For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
gloss: A shelf-talker.
pos: noun
gloss: A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
pos: noun
examples: The barker looks action-packed, but actually playing the game is rather dull.
gloss: A pistol.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: Barney, opening a cupboard, brought forth several articles, which he hastily crammed into the pockets.
“Barkers for me, Barney," said Toby Crackit.
“Here they are,” replied Barney, producing a pair of pistols.
Parkin, the Oxford Street gunmaker, sent me a brace of barkers in silver mountings, with my initials engraved—good for trade, I imagine.
gloss: The spotted redshank.
pos: noun
Derived words: barker channel
Translations:
heebie-jeebies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The earliest found occurrences of spelling variants (it is not established whether the first one coined the term or committed to print an earlier oral expression):
* In 1923, the spelling "heeby jeebys" was used by U.S. cartoonist Billy De Beck in his comic strip Barney Google (New York American, 26 October 1923).
* In 1925, the spelling "heebee-jeebees" was used in U.S. magazine Ladies' Home Journal (Vol. 42, Part 2, p. 44).
* In 1926, the spelling "heebie jeebies" was used by U.S. singer Louis Armstrong for his single "Heebie Jeebies" (written by Boyd Atkins).
* In 1928, the spelling "heebee-geebees" was used in U.S. article "We All Have the Heebee-Geebees" by G. M. Keller of Swift & Company (Modern School Store, Vol. 11, p. 269 via Google Books).
* In 1956, the spelling "heeby jeebies" was used by U.S. singer Little Richard on the cover of his homonymous SP record (and the hyphenated spelling "heeby-jeebies" on its vinyl disc itself).
Inflected forms:
form: heebee-geebees
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heebee geebees
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heebeegeebees
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heebygeebies
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heebee-jeebees
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heebee jeebees
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heebeejeebees
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heebie jeebies
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heebiejeebies
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heeby-jeebies
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heeby jeebies
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heebyjeebies
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heeby-jeebys
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heeby jeebys
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A general feeling of anxiety, fear, uneasiness, or nausea.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
plural
plural-only
examples: I don't mind worms, but spiders give me the heebie-jeebies.
When I see that weird house, I get the heebie-jeebies.
P.U., that outhouse gives me the heebie-jeebies!
Translations:
texas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the practice of naming cabins after US states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.
Inflected forms:
form: texases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat.
pos: noun
examples: She has sixty one staterooms in the main cabin, twenty four extra rooms in the texas for passengers, a nursery for servants and children, and a cabin adjoining the nursery in which are staterooms for fifty passengers.
Now Will saw lights ahead and they were to the landing where the steamboats lay moored, banking the river front solidly as far as the ... whose lights rose tier upon tier from main deck to the cupola-like pilot houses atop the texases.
Translations:
bass-ackwards
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bass-ackwards
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bass-ackwards
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bass-ackward
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bassackward
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bassackwards
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more bass-ackwards
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bass-ackwards
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: bass-ackward
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: bassackward
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: bassackwards
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Spoonerism of ass-backwards
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
idiomatic
informal
examples: Their whole approach is bass-ackwards.
gloss: Spoonerism of ass-backwards
pos: adv
tags: euphemistic
idiomatic
informal
examples: What do you expect? They did the job bass-ackwards.
It’s certainly not helped by the bass-ackwards direction of team director Walter Godefroot. The man never met talent he couldn’t squander.
Translations:
blob
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *blob (“attested in blobby”). Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to bleb and blubber.
Inflected forms:
form: blobs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blobbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blobbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blobbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To splash in the form of a blob or blobs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Bones put the tiny crimson speck between his slides, blobbed a drop of oil on top, and focused the microscope.
[…] a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home.
gloss: To drop a blob or blobs onto; to cover with blobs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She was beating something in a pail, beating it with her hands; her arms were blobbed with pink froth to the elbows.
Asked to do a mural in the coffee room of the Municipal Museum, Appel responded by blobbing all four walls and the ceiling with brilliant colors […]
gloss: To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Caroline began to separate eggs, cracking them into unbelievably even halves, sliding the gold, round and elastic, from shell to shell, whilst the white hung, heavy, translucent, in thick sheets, and blobbed suddenly into her basin.
2013, Marcus Berkmann, "Blood and gore of the real 'who dunnits'," Review of Silent Witnesses by Nigel McCrery, Daily Mail, 22 August, 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2400118/Blood-gore-real-dunnits-SILENT-WITNESSES-BY-NIGEL-MCCRERY.html
[…] whether the blood has splashed, or blobbed, or trickled, can reveal whether the victim was killed here or moved afterwards.
gloss: To spill sauce on oneself while eating.
pos: verb
tags: UK
colloquial
intransitive
gloss: To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
gloss: To catch eels by means of worms strung on a thread.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] where he had surreptitiously tickled small trout, or openly "blobbed" for eels with worms threaded on to darning wool when the rains came, […]
Derived words: blob off
blob out
Translations:
ass-backwards
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Recorded in the US in the 1930s. From ass + backwards
Compound parts: ass
backwards
Inflected forms:
form: more ass-backwards
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ass-backwards
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ass backwards
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ass-backward
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ass backward
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: back-asswards
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: backasswards
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bass-ackwards
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bassackwards
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ass backwards
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: ass-backward
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: ass backward
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: back-asswards
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: backasswards
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: bass-ackwards
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: bassackwards
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Oriented backwards, particularly after a mishap.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: The car spun out of control and I ended up ass-backwards in a ditch.
gloss: Hopelessly misguided; contrary to what is normal, expected, or logical; having taken the utterly wrong choice.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
idiomatic
examples: No wonder it doesn't work. The whole design is ass-backwards.
gloss: Moving backwards, that is, rear end first.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
gloss: In a hopelessly misguided manner; in a manner contrary to what is normal, expected, or logical.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: They did the whole design ass-backwards. No wonder it doesn't work.
Related words: put the cart before the horse
preposterous
Translations: