yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
totes
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of totally + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Totally.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: That was totes like the best night ever!
“Apparently, I suck at being nonviolent.” “Dude, sucking at something is the first step towards being sort of good at something. You and I are like little baby Billys right now, and we're "sucking" on our first bottle of nonviolent milk.” “[sighs] Totes. I'll stop "pooping my diaper."” “Whoa, what?!”
Omg, diary, mid-year rotto was the best. time. EVER. Whole #squad stayed at Geordie Bay, obvi. All the planning totes paid off - literally so wasted from start to finish.
“I don't know how I would have gotten through this without you.” “Oh, the feeling is mutual. I've always schemed and connived alone. But as a duo, it is, as you might say, "totes ridic!"” “(gasps) I would say that.”
“You convinced us, too.” “Yeah, we're totes donating our dividend check next year.”
Translations:
cha-cha
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
Etymology: From Cuban/Latin American Spanish cha-cha, imitative of the music.
Inflected forms:
form: cha-chas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cha-chas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cha-chaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cha-chaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cha-chaed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A ballroom dance to a Latin American rhythm.
pos: noun
gloss: The music for this dance.
pos: noun
gloss: To dance the cha-cha.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
prickles
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: gooseflesh
pos: noun
tags: Ulster
Translations:
fucknuts
Part of speech: intj
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fuck + nuts.
Compound parts: fuck
nuts
Inflected forms:
form: more fucknuts
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fucknuts
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Used to express dismay or discontent.
pos: intj
gloss: Usually of an action or object: ridiculous, absurd, incomprehensible.
pos: adj
examples: This new hairdryer design is totally fucknuts.
I was late and my boss went fucknuts.
Translations:
silversides
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: silversides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A silverside (fish in order Atheriniformes).
pos: noun
Translations:
goalposts
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: a 7-10 split
pos: noun
Translations:
steamboats
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps from Steamboat Willie, rhyming slang for silly, or perhaps from a stereotype of steamboat passengers getting drunk.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Drunk; intoxicated.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
not-comparable
slang
examples: Joe and The Tongue especially are absolutely steamboats by the time we reach the Niccy, and the 'bouncers' – furtive damp chemistry teachers on an ego trip – turn us all sneeringly away in their clean-spitting accents:
Somebody absolutely steamboats he says on
sweet warm wine
swigged plaincover from a paper bag
squats in a puddle with nothing to sell […]
The truth is that nobody remembered; they had all been absolutely steamboats.
After getting steamboats in the pub we would all head to the local fish-and-chip shop, where I would order a fish supper and a steak pie wrapped together. I would then place it on a wall and bash it with my fist so that pie, fish and chips all ...
By the weekend we were off it and out on the lash, living it up in the VIP section of Annabelle's nightclub and getting absolutely steamboats. There's only one thing better than a glass of Champagne – a bottle!
Translations:
escabeche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish escabeche, from Andalusian Arabic اَلسُّكَّبَاج (assukkabáj), from Arabic اَلسِّكْبَاجَة (as-sikbāja), feminine of سِكْبَاج (sikbāj), from Middle Persian [script needed] (*sḵbʾk' /⁠*sikbāg⁠/) (whence Persian سکبا (sekbâ)). Possibly related to ceviche. Doublet of caveach and sikbaj.
Inflected forms:
form: escabeches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dish of fish (or sometimes chicken) first fried then marinated in a spiced vinegar and served cold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
firman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فرمان (fermân), from Classical Persian فرمان (farmān, “command, order, decree”).
Inflected forms:
form: firmans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: farman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ferman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pharmaund
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: phirmaund
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a royal decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, especially by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: his Sublimity's firman, The most imperative of sovereign spells, / Which every body does without who can […]
He managed to obtain from the vizier a firman bearing the Emir's personal seal and ordering all Bokharan officials to assist the party in every way possible.
It will be noted that the title of Sultan was adopted partly because that of Khedive had been conferred by an Ottoman firman.
Translations:
heather-mixture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: heather-mixtures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a mixture of interwoven yarns that gives a muted appearance with flecks of colour
pos: noun
Translations:
toadflax
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From toad + flax.
Compound parts: toad
flax
Inflected forms:
form: toadflaxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several European plants, of the genus Linaria, having two-lipped yellow flowers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “What on earth did you put in that stuff?” “Bug-bane, barren-wort, penny-cress and blood-root, catchfly, toad-flax, nap-weed and wormwood,” said Catweazle.
One morning she had me traipsing out at the crack of dawn for prickly poppy, toadflax, spiderwort, and skeleton weed. If that doesn't sound like the makings of a witch's brew, then I'm the queen of England.
gloss: Any of several other plants in the family Plantaginaceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bastard toadflax
common toadflax
ivy-leaved toadflax
Jersey toadflax
Pelisser's toadflax
yellow toadflax
Translations:
butter-and-eggs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the yellow and white coloration of the flowers.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A flowering plant, of species Linaria vulgaris, native to Europe and northern Asia; yellow toadflax; common toadflax.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A flowering plant, of species Triphysaria eriantha, native to North America; johnny-tuck.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
vesting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: vestings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The entitlement of an employee to receive the full benefit of a pension at normal retirement age or a reduced pension upon early retirement even upon change of employer before retirement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The entitlement of an employee to exercise a stock option after a predetermined period of time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Cloth for making vests.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A vest pattern.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: vesting schedule
Translations:
vestryman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vestry
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English vestryman
From vestry + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: vestrymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a parochial vestry, especially one who is a man.
pos: noun
Translations:
goss
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of gossip.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Gossip.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: The hottest goss in celeb-land today is that Angelina Jolie is jealous of her fella's relationship with his ex-wife.
To give myself a break from the energy sapping, demoralising patrolling of this uninviting habitat, and to get away from any more creepy visions, I decided to drive into Mount Isa, ostensibly to be within phone range so I could contact Bob Forsyth and find out any local goss from him.
Translations:
escribe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin e (“out, out of”) + scribere (“to write”).
Inflected forms:
form: escribes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: escribing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: escribed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: escribed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To draw outside of; designating a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the extensions of the other two sides.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
frita
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fritas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of hamburger of Cuban origin, consisting of a seasoned ground beef and pork patty with chorizo or chorizo spices, topped with sauteed onions, served on a Cuban bread roll and garnished with julienned or shoestring potato fries.
pos: noun
Translations:
estafa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish estafa.
Inflected forms:
form: estafas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: fraud, con
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
Translations:
ergocalciferol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ergo- + calciferol. The calciferous ergosterol.
Base: calciferol
Affixes: ergo-
Inflected forms:
form: ergocalciferols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Constituent of vitamin D₁ and vitamin D₂.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cholecalciferol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From chole- + calciferol. The calciferous cholesterol.
Base: calciferol
Affixes: chole-
Inflected forms:
form: cholecalciferols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Vitamin D₃
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
hipe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: Uncertain.
Inflected forms:
form: hipes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hype
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hipes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hiping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hiped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hiped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hype
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.
pos: noun
gloss: To throw (an opponent) using this technique.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
tillable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English till
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English tillable
From till + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more tillable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tillable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: able to be tilled or ploughed; arable
pos: adj
Translations:
optionally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English option
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English optional
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English optionally
From optional + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more optionally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most optionally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an optional manner; not mandatorily.
pos: adv
examples: Plural suffixes may be optionally added after the Ist person exclusive ƞə—z̆e, Ist person inclusive ƞə—təƞ, and IInd person non-honorific khyo—z̆e and honorific ñe—z̆e.
Antonyms: mandatorily
Translations:
mossy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mossy, equivalent to moss + -y.
Base: moss
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: mossier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: mossiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in or overgrown with moss.
pos: adj
examples: The moſſy pales that ſkirt the orchard-green, / Here hid by ſhrub-vvood, there by glimpſes ſeen; […]
A Violet by a mossy stone / Half-hidden from the Eye! / —Fair, as a star when only one / Is shining in the sky!
Two particularly attractive cottages, roofed with mossy and lichened slates, stand at the churchyard's eastern gate, looking up a long avenue of yew trees.
Translations:
mandatorily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mandatory
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English mandatorily
From mandatory + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a mandatory manner; not optionally; required.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: facultatively
optionally
Translations:
tilled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: ploughed or cultivated
pos: adj
Translations:
updraft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English up-
English draft
English updraft
From up- + draft.
Inflected forms:
form: updrafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: updraught
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: an upward current of air, especially a strong one
pos: noun
Translations:
upmarket
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English up-
English market
English upmarket
From up- + market.
Inflected forms:
form: more upmarket
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most upmarket
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: upmarkets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upmarketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upmarketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upmarketed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Designed for customers with a high income.
pos: adj
examples: Temperatures in the western suburbs of Sydney, far from the upmarket beachside glamour, reached 47C (117F) last week, topping the 44C I experienced there the week before. For reference, if it reached 47C in the middle of the Sahara desert, that would be an unusually hot day.
gloss: Towards the more expensive end of the market.
pos: adv
gloss: To render or become upmarket.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] their flats and shops are upmarketed or pulled down to be replaced by hotels, offices and a privately owned park.
Antonyms: downmarket
Translations:
upperclassman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: education
Etymology: From upper + classman.
Compound parts: upper
classman
Inflected forms:
form: upperclassmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A junior or senior student in a school or college.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
uppercut
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
boxing
cricket
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From upper + cut.
Compound parts: upper
cut
Inflected forms:
form: uppercuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: uppercuts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uppercutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: uppercut
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: uppercut
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A swinging blow aimed upwards at the opponent's chin.
pos: noun
gloss: A cut shot that sends the ball over the wicket-keeper's head.
pos: noun
gloss: To strike with an uppercut.
pos: verb
examples: The bowler was bowling a bouncer so he uppercut the ball for six.
Translations:
uprightly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English upright
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English uprightly
From upright + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more uprightly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most uprightly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an upright manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
uproariously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English uproarious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English uproariously
From uproarious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more uproariously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most uproariously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an uproarious manner.
pos: adv
examples: Everybody, old and young, laughs uproariously at this and immediately forgets all about it.
From the first frames, it reveals itself as an outrageously, uproariously sexed-up piece of work, stylishly directed by Alfonso Cuaron from a script by his brother Carlos.
Translations:
upwardly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English upward
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English upwardly
From upward + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more upwardly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most upwardly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an upward manner.
pos: adv
gloss: Towards a higher level, position or status.
pos: adv
Antonyms: downwardly
Related words: backwardly
downwardly
forwardly
sidewardly
Derived words: upwardly mobile
Translations:
urinalysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Blend of urine + analysis.
Compound parts: urine
analysis
Inflected forms:
form: urinalyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The comprehensive analysis of urine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ‘He was still booking them in for their check-ups. All that cholesterol to be tested, all those urinalyses.’
Translations:
urological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English urology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English urological
From urology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to urology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
uselessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *oissos
Latin ūsus
Old French usbor.
Middle English use
English use
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English useless
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English uselessly
From useless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more uselessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most uselessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a useless manner.
pos: adv
gloss: To no useful purpose.
pos: adv
examples: Mr. Civil, warned and guided by distant axe-whangs, had found them, and had been unsparing in his condemnation of Jim's stupid waste of time in coming an unnecessary mile to chop down a tree uselessly far away.
Translations:
uselessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *oissos
Latin ūsus
Old French usbor.
Middle English use
English use
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English useless
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English uselessness
From useless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: uselessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being useless.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
user-friendly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English user
English friendly
English user-friendly
From user + friendly.
Inflected forms:
form: user-friendlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more user-friendly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: user-friendliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most user-friendly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: userfriendly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: user friendly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Designed to be easy for an untrained user to use, with intuitive ordering of steps, consistent and logical placement of controls, etc.
pos: adj
examples: In the past few years, product engineers have infused the basic telephone with lots of high-tech, razzle-dazzle, and user friendly innovations such as speed dialing, automatic redial, speakerphones, cordless phones, hold buttons, and dialing memories.
Antonyms: procrustean
user-hostile
user-unfriendly
Translations:
user-friendliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English user
English friendly
English user-friendly
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English user-friendliness
From user-friendly + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being user-friendly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
usurious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English usury
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English usurious
From usury + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more usurious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most usurious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: usurous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to usury.
pos: adj
examples: If an Executor pay an Uſurious Bond, other Creditors may make a Devaſtavit of it, Hob. p. 167. If a Man be bound in an Obligation Uſurious, the Bond is void between the Parties, yea and Strangers ſhall take the advantage of it; and therefore if ſuch an Obligor makes his Executor and die, and the Executor pay the uſurious Bond, other Creditors may ſhew it, and make a Devaſtavit of it, in Winchcomb and the Biſhop of Wincheſter’s Caſe.
The fallacy of his [Justice William Best’s] argument is, that he supposes the objection to the plaintiff’s recovery to be, that his contract with the defendant is usurious; whereas the objection really arises from the circumstance that these notes are deposited to enforce another contract, which was usurious, and the defence rests on this — not that more than 5 per cent. is reserved by these bills, but that they are destined to enforce a contract which is usurious.
Behold the name given by Christ to both the usurer and his usurious borrower. Sinners lend to sinners; each is a sinner, the usurer and the borrower.
His one worldly care was to raise ready money; sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. And how he raised it: From usurious insatiable Jews; every fresh Jew sticking on him like a fresh horseleech, sucking his and our life out; crying continually, Give! give!
The originator of a usurious loan in California is subject to severe civil penalties.
gloss: Exorbitant.
pos: adj
examples: But nature, violated by these excesses, exacts a most usurious interest for this illicit indulgence. She makes them pay for moments of rapture with hours of despair.
Related words: usurer
usuress
Derived words: usuriousness
Translations:
ubiquitously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ubiquitous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ubiquitously
From ubiquitous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ubiquitously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ubiquitously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a ubiquitous manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
ulcerated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ulcerated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ulcerated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: affected with ulcers
pos: adj
Translations:
ultrasonically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ultrasonic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English ultrasonically
From ultrasonic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more ultrasonically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ultrasonically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an ultrasonic manner.
pos: adv
gloss: Using ultrasonics.
pos: adv
Translations:
ultrasonics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Latin ūls
Proto-Indo-European *-teros?
Latin -ter
Old Latin -ād
Latin -ā
Latin ultrābor.
English ultra-
English sonics
English ultrasonics
From ultra- + sonics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the science and technology of ultrasound
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
ilex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin ilexbor.
English ilex
Borrowed from Latin ilex (“holm oak”).
Inflected forms:
form: ilexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ilices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Holm oak (Quercus ilex).
pos: noun
examples: There is a point of strand / Near Vada's tower and town; and on one side / The treacherous marsh divides it from the land, / Shadowed by pine and ilex forests wide, / And on the other creeps eternally, / Through muddy weeds, the shallow, sullen sea.
Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex—many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsylike, on the ground […]
Sometimes I lost track of them and had to hunt round in a circle, thrusting through sharp-scented bushes, scratching myself on various plants which were still new to me: resinaceous rock-roses, juniper, ilex [translating chênes verts], yellow and white asphodel.
gloss: Any of the numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex.
pos: noun
Translations:
unaffiliated
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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-
English affiliate
English -ed
English unaffiliated
From un- + affiliate + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: unaffiliateds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not affiliated, not associated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But politically correct universities and colleges, overrun by SJW liberals and angry geeds (read uninitiated and unaffiliated members of the university who have no wish to join Greek life or support it whatsoever) want to destroy the Greek system.
This is not a land of blowouts. It’s a middle ground, and that’s reflected in voter registration rolls. Nearly 2.6 million North Carolinians declare themselves unaffiliated, while just over 2.4 million identify as Democrats and just under 2.2 million as Republicans. We don’t tilt. We teeter.
gloss: A person or organization having no affiliation.
pos: noun
examples: These unaffiliated (or independent) directors are, supposedly, the purifying factor against the contamination of the Managing Group's duality. The unaffiliateds are, in short, the Fund's watchdogs.
Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.
Translations:
scooper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
firefighting
government
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scoop
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English scooper
From scoop + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: scoopers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who scoops.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that scoops.
pos: noun
gloss: An engraver's tool.
pos: noun
gloss: The avocet, a bird that scoops up the mud to obtain food.
pos: noun
gloss: A journalist who obtains a scoop, or exclusive.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of air tanker waterbomber airplane, which is capable of landing on water, and directly scooping up water to fill its tanks, by skimming the water's surface with scoops delopyed.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: melon ball scooper
pooper-scooper
poop scooper
Translations:
whacker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English whack
English -er
English whacker
From whack + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: whackers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or something which, whacks.
pos: noun
examples: Joe was just about the best Australian heavyweight at the time, a very tough customer in his own right. He didn't have any science, but he was a mighty whacker.
gloss: Synonym of whopper (“anything large”).
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Synonym of whopper (“an outrageous or blatant lie”).
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: "Oh, there's a whacker!" cried East; "we haven't been within a hundred yards of his barn; we haven't been up here above ten minutes, and we've seen nothing but a tough old guinea-hen, who ran like a greyhound."
But all the while Captain Amos Brown was telling whackers that would have done credit to Baron Munchausen, he was really thinking of how he was to save those whose passage to a port not named in any bills of lading looked almost certain.
gloss: A radio amateur who is keenly interested in emergency response and may travel to the sites of emergencies.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: Packer whacker
weed whacker
weedwhacker
Translations:
what-if
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: what-ifs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: what-ifs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: what-iffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: what-iffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: what-iffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A speculation as to what might have happened if something else had happened earlier.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Each man was running over the what ifs in his mind.
gloss: A hypothetical case or situation, usually evoked by a sense of anxiety or uncertainty.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: To speculate about the consequences of something that could have happened.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Related words: what if
Derived words: what-iffery
Translations:
affiliated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Associated, related, or united; subject to a particular affiliation.
pos: adj
examples: We are not affiliated with any commercial publisher.
The main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite directly derived from, and related to, preceding Nature worships; and it has only been by a good deal of deliberate mystification and falsification that this derivation has been kept out of sight.
Translations:
wheeler-dealer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From wheel and deal, equivalent to wheel + -er + deal + -er.
Base: wheel
Affixes: -er
-er
Inflected forms:
form: wheeler-dealers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wheeler dealer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wheelerdealer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A shrewd political or commercial schemer, especially one who is unscrupulous; a hustler; a shady operator.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Seated at separate tables to underscore their differing levels of involvement with indicted savings and loan wheeler-dealer Charles Keating, the five were fighting to regain reputations earned in a lifetime of public service.
It is illegal to buy and sell this sort of item, he says, but not necessarily illegal to buy and sell the containers that they happen to come in. What an unexpected wheeler dealer.
Translations:
wheezy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wheeze
English -y
English wheezy
From wheeze + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: wheezier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wheeziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That wheezes.
pos: adj
examples: A couple of somewhat wheezy Highland "River" class 4-6-0s have succeeded in hauling 450-ton stock trains between Stranraer and Ayr.
Translations:
whensoever
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English quen-so-ever, wensoever, whanne so evere, whan-so-ever, whan-so-evere, whenne-soever, when so evyr. By surface analysis, when + so + ever.
Inflected forms:
form: whensoëver
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: whenever; at any time at all
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Now or whensoever, provided I be so able as now.
Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.
But we mean whensoever her majesty or any other patron do present any person unto a benefice, that the person presented shall be tried and examined by the judgment of learned men of the church; […]
Translations:
lugging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lugging, equivalent to lug + -ing.
Base: lug
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: luggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is lugged from one place to another; a laborious carrying or dragging.
pos: noun
Translations:
lugged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Constructed with lugs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a bicycle with a lugged steel frame
gloss: Having ears.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
whimsicality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From whimsical + -ity.
Base: whimsical
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: whimsicalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being whimsical.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Something whimsical; a caprice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: We ask: Has this same ‘perhaps not ill-written Program,’ or any other authentic Transaction of that Property-conserving Society, fallen under the eye of the British Reader, in any Journal foreign or domestic? If so, what are those Prize-Questions; what are the terms of Competition, and when and where? No printed Newspaper-leaf, no farther light of any sort, to be met with in these Paper-bags! Or is the whole business one other of those whimsicalities and perverse inexplicabilities, whereby Herr Teufelsdröckh, meaning much or nothing, is pleased so often to play fast-and-loose with us?
Translations:
whimsically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English whimsical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English whimsically
From whimsical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more whimsically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most whimsically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a whimsical manner
pos: adv
examples: "Now don't say that this is what you get for bringing a woman along," she said. She smiled at me whimsically, gloriously, and I knew there was no need for forgiveness.
As they drew nearer she was whimsically struck by a kind of family likeness between Miss Van Osburgh and Percy Gryce.
Translations:
whipcord
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From whip + cord.
Compound parts: whip
cord
Inflected forms:
form: whipcords
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hard, twisted cord used for making whiplashes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of catgut.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A strong worsted fabric, with a diagonal rib.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: sea-whipcord
whipcordy
Translations:
deeming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English deming, demyng, from Old English *dēming (attested in Old English fordēming (“confiscation”)), equivalent to deem + -ing.
Base: deem
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: deemings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of judging or of forming an opinion; judgment, estimation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
whitecap
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From white + cap.
Compound parts: white
cap
Inflected forms:
form: whitecaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several birds having a white patch on the head
pos: noun
gloss: A wave having a white crest; a breaker
pos: noun
gloss: A member of a self-appointed vigilante committee that carried out lynchings. Some early ones wore white hoods or masks.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
Derived words: whitecapping
Translations:
whitefish
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: cooking
fishing
food
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: From white + fish.
Compound parts: white
fish
Inflected forms:
form: whitefishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whitefish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: white-fish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whitefishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whitefishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whitefished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whitefished
pos: verb
tags: past
form: white-fish
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
pos: noun
gloss: A beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale).
pos: noun
gloss: A lesser queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
pos: noun
gloss: To fish for whitefish.
pos: verb
examples: “Perhaps he went whitefishing after he had his supper.”
“Bill” is said to have whitefished on the lake since Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox first plowed it out.
Beth and I whitefished in the broken ice along the banks of the Clark, a fire of driftwood roaring in the wind with the coffeepot set among the coals.
Synonyms: kilch
Derived words: Alaska whitefish
Atlantic whitefish
Bear Lake whitefish Prosopium abyssicola
broad whitefish
Cape whitefish
common whitefish
Coney Island whitefish
European whitefish
freshwater whitefish
humpbacked whitefish
lake whitefish
Menominee whitefish
mongrel whitefish
mountain whitefish
ocean whitefish
pygmy whitefish
Rocky Mountain whitefish
round whitefish
Translations:
white-knuckle
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Evoking the imagery of tightly clenched hands with reduced bloodflow to the knuckles.
Inflected forms:
form: white knuckle
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: white-knuckles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: white-knuckling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: white-knuckled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: white-knuckled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: white knuckle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Causing fear, excitement, apprehension, suspense, or nervousness.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: "No surprise given both Bellamy and White share - or have inherited - Hendrix's unique blend of experimental instincts and white-knuckle showmanship," said Mr Goldsmith.
BP said its capped-off well appeared to be holding steady Friday morning, almost midway into a white-knuckle waiting period in which engineers watched the pressure gauges for signs of a leak.
Most of the Denver-based Monitor writer’s work is less white-knuckle.
gloss: To endure despite feeling terror, fear, apprehension, anxiety, discomfort, or torment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The rest of the drive home I white knuckled it.
“I white-knuckled it down there. Went as fast as I could. I didn't tell anyone I was going. When I got there, they wouldn't let me in. Because I wasn't family.”
There’s an industry term for white-knuckling it through crypto’s wild volatility without selling: “hodl.”
Some J-CATs didn't even take medication, meaning they white-knuckle this lifestyle, possibly unaware of their deviation from reality and normality.
gloss: To grip tightly in fear, apprehension, suspense, or nervousness.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That lifting sensation is so strong, I inadvertently feel myself white-knuckling the hand grips.
Translations:
whitener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English whiten
English -er
English whitener
From whiten + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: whiteners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any substance used to whiten something; a bleach.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A person employed to whiten or bleach.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A powder added to tea or coffee in place of milk. A "non-dairy creamer".
pos: noun
tags: Canada
countable
uncountable
Translations:
whiteout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: Deverbal from white out.
Inflected forms:
form: whiteouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: white-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A whiteout can best be described as a paradoxical combination of being partially blind, but also being able to see illusions of things. It is like floundering in a sea of cotton; everything looks blurred and white.
gloss: Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Despite the media whiteout, we believe our weapon flashing had communicated the important political message that the nuclear mentality and the masculine mentality are intimately connected.
The slightest reference to national security is accepted as excuse enough for a news whiteout.
What, for example, have the protagonists of the First Amendment to say about the media whiteout in the United States on the work of such a distinguished radical as Noam Chomsky?
"Who Put the Black Face on Poverty," the show asked. Well, the mainstream media "whiteout" of the story provides a clue.
gloss: The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: While it represented a symbolic break from the “whiteout” on the US presidency, it was also, obviously, the most racialized campaign in American history.
Closer to home, I thought about how that same “whiteout” existed in U.S. scholarship on television production and viewership and their cultural flows.
We must return to a time where whiteout will no longer exist in our thinking process, and remember, black is not just a color but a totally different way of being.
Related words: blackout
brownout
grayout
greyout
Translations:
whitewall
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From white + wall.
Compound parts: white
wall
Inflected forms:
form: whitewalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having white sidewalls (of a tyre/tire)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Jake had just installed a radar detector and four new whitewall tires.
The UniRoyal Tiger Pay Touring whitewall tire is not a performance tire, but it is totally acceptable for street use.
I was shocked the other day when I Walmart that I could not find a whitewall tire for sale.
gloss: Describing a hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: A weird elongated creature with a whitewall haircut who had the big head as well as hands and fat thighs of the acromegalic, he was an uninhibited cross-dresser suffering from Gender Identity Disorder who constantly appeared in frocks.
A blond kid with a whitewall haircut and long, thin sideburns came over to stand beside the kid with the wimpy Roman do.
With a whitewall crew cut, high and tight.
gloss: A tyre/tire with white sidewalls.
pos: noun
examples: She'd look two hun-erd percent better with the whitewalls...
Sales points you just have to snap on the whitewalls; they are easy to clean, can't scuff on curbs […]
Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac / Gangsta whitewalls
To clean whitewalls on tires, spray Easy-Off Oven Clearn on the whitewalls, wait two minutes, and then rince off with a high pressure hose.
They owned two of the largest houses in town; and they drove the latest Chevrolets available, 1941 models, both cars still sporting whitewall tires, which meant that the man who said he hadn't seen a whitewall since Hector was a pup was perhaps stretching the truth.
gloss: A hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
whodunit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined by critic Donald Gordon in 1930. Alteration and univerbation of who done it? with ellipsis of has.
Inflected forms:
form: whodunits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whodunnit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A novel or drama concerning a crime (usually a murder) in which a detective follows clues to determine the perpetrator.
pos: noun
examples: Actually, an whodunit is a mystery story. The hero is generally a detective, although sometimes he is a gentleman (apparently a mild mannered worm) who sallies forth at night to become Public Enemy No. One of Crime. Otherwise, the formula is exactly the same as that of the Cliff-hanger and follows the same rules.
Translations:
whole-wheat
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of flour, prepared from all the constituents of the wheat grain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonym: wholemeal
gloss: Of bread, etc., made from whole-wheat flour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: whole-wheat bread
Translations: