yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
carbuncle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
monarchy
nobility
pathology
politics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English carbuncle, charbocle, from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, from Latin carbunculus (“a small coal; a reddish kind of precious stone; a kind of tumor”), diminutive of carbō (“a coal, charcoal”). Doublet of Garfinkel and Garfunkel.
Inflected forms:
form: carbuncles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus […]
And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
His turban, or mandil [mandīl], was of finest white silk interwoven with gold, bestudded with pearl[s] and carbuncles; […]
A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed.
gloss: A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
pos: noun
gloss: An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection.
pos: noun
gloss: An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore.
pos: noun
Related words: carbon
ruby
Derived words: carbuncled
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: гранат
roman: granat
lang: Catalan
word: carboncle
lang: Danish
word: karfunkel
lang: Dutch
word: karbonkel
lang: Erzya
word: мазыкев
roman: mazïkev
lang: French
word: carboucle
lang: Old French
word: carbuncle
lang: Galician
word: carbúnculo
lang: Georgian
word: ტოპაზი
roman: ṭoṗazi
lang: Old Georgian
word: ანთრაკი
roman: antraḳi
lang: German
word: Karfunkel
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄνθραξ
roman: ánthrax
lang: Hebrew
word: נֹפֶךְ
roman: nófech
lang: Irish
word: carrmhogal
lang: Latin
word: carbunculus
lang: Malay
word: batu merah
lang: Manx
word: carbuncle
lang: Māori
word: kapakara
lang: Middle English
word: carbuncle
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: karfunkel
lang: Polish
word: karbunkuł
lang: Portuguese
word: granado oriental
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: càrrmhogal
lang: Spanish
word: carbunclo
lang: Spanish
word: carbúnculo
lang: Welsh
word: carbwncl
lang: Yiddish
word: גאָרפֿינקל
roman: gorfinkl
testudo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
entertainment
government
lifestyle
medicine
military
music
pathology
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin testūdō (“tortoise, turtle, lyre, type of military shelter”).
Inflected forms:
form: testudos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: testudoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: testudines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
historical
gloss: A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: The fornix.
pos: noun
gloss: A chelys (kind of lyre)
pos: noun
gloss: An encysted tumour.
pos: noun
Translations:
pterosaur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ptero- + -saur, literally “wing lizard”, from Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “feather, wing”) and σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”).
Affixes: ptero-
-saur
Inflected forms:
form: pterosaurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pterosaurus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any flying reptile, of the extinct order †Pterosauria, including the pterodactyls.
pos: noun
examples: Batsquatch, pterosaurs and the River Man. She had three weeks in Washington State tracking down the local legends. There was nothing ordinary about her job as the biologist on the television show Cryptid or Hoax?
Translations:
facepalm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From face + palm. Attested since at least 2001.
Compound parts: face
palm
Inflected forms:
form: facepalms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: face-palm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: face palm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: facepalms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: facepalming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: facepalmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: facepalmed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: face-palm
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: face palm
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A gesture of bringing one or both palms to the face, with various interpretations including exasperation, chagrin, frustration, embarrassment (one's own or vicarious), etc.
pos: noun
examples: [Cue: William Tell Overture] [sound of Frank Zappa's “San Ber'dino” being played on Japanese instruments] [Kevin (the Muse): “Wargh! It SAID _William Tell!”] [Cantata11 (walking up with a koto): “Oof. Sorry. It's just that the girls had gotten warmed up to the other thingy...”] [Kevin: “William _Tell_, 11.” (facepalm)]
“Do you think Carl Sagan might be available?” There was a mass-facepalm. “No.” they chorused.
A look of realization crossed her face; she looked like she may have given herself a face palm if her hands weren't full.
According to a study by me, this generates a multibillion facepalm for the UK economy, making everyone who considers it at least eleventy hundred pounds unhappier.
gloss: To bring the palm of one’s hand to one’s face as an expression of mixed humor and disbelief, disgust or shame; for example, when one is caught off-guard with a particularly bad pun.
pos: verb
examples: Christie blinked, then *looked* at Steven. “Do you have any idea what might be different?” “Um... No? Christie facepalmed. “Well, her hair was red this morning, right? It's blonde now. You figure it out.”
“Yay! I know you! You're Nicholas Lee, the detective who got fired 'cos of us!” Nina exclaimed happily. Lee facepalmed. “Arrgh...” “Nina...” Tris muttered. “Let's quit while we're ahead, okay?”
gloss: To bring one’s face down to one’s cupped hand or hands.
pos: verb
Related words: 🤦
🤦♀️
🤦♂️
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: het gezicht in de handen verbergen
lang: Finnish
word: haudata kasvonsa kämmeniinsä
lang: French
word: se cacher la tête dans la main
lang: Hungarian
word: kezébe temeti arcát
lang: Polish
word: ukrywać twarz w dłoniach
lang: Polish
word: ukryć twarz w dłoniach
lang: Russian
word: прикры́ть лицо́ ладо́нью
roman: prikrýtʹ licó ladónʹju
gouging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gougings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who gouges.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mark produced by gouging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The damage consists in general of more or less deep cuts or gougings on the flesh side of the hide, often penetrating through the hide to the grain side.
Translations:
gouger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gouge
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 gouger
From gouge + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: gougers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who gouges.
pos: noun
gloss: A thug or lout.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
slang
Derived words: plum gouger
price gouger
sidehill gouger
Translations:
trammel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”).
Base: macula
Affixes: tri-
Inflected forms:
form: trammels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trammels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trammeling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: trammelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: trammeled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: trammeled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: trammelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: trammelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
pos: noun
examples: [They] disclaim the trammels of any sordid contract.
The men who came here were able to throw off all the trammels of tradition and established doctrine.
"Also, it would be convenient for spending the night - or, if you find that the trammels of convention still defy the peculiar circumstances, well, maybe we could make it two apartments."
gloss: A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
pos: noun
examples: 1633,
The tuck carrieth a like fashion , save that it is narrower meshed , and ( therefore scarce lawful ) with a long bunt in the midst : the trammel differeth not much from the shape of this bunt, and serveth to such use as the wear and haking.
gloss: A vertical bar with several notches or chain of rings suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots by a hook which has an easily adjustable height.
pos: noun
gloss: Braids or plaits of hair.
pos: noun
examples: Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye
In breaded tramels, that no looser heares
Did out of order stray about her daintie eares.
gloss: A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
pos: noun
gloss: A beam compass.
pos: noun
gloss: To entangle, as in a net.
pos: verb
examples: the scarce-snatched hours
Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers: —
Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars.
gloss: To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In their vote, you would get something of some value, at least, however small; but in the other case, only the trammelled judgment of an individual, of no significance, be it which way it might.
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.
Derived words: entrammel
trammeler
trammel of Archimedes
trammel wheel
untrammel
Translations:
hopped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hopped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hopped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Impregnated with hops.
pos: adj
Translations:
roped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more roped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most roped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
raped
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: the raped
pos: noun
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: Raped people.
pos: noun
tags: collective
uncountable
examples: Short answer: "would you rather be cis but the raped 24/7" what do you think
Rightwinger: WAGTFKY. You have no idea what’s coming. Helicopter rides for commies. 41%. Your days are numbered. You are the raped.
Art should unrape the raped and rape the unraped.
Translations:
tapped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Inflected forms:
form: more tapped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tapped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a tap or taps.
pos: adj
examples: a tapped keg; a tapped maple tree
gloss: Of a card or playing piece: used up for the current turn.
pos: adj
gloss: Crazy, eccentric.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: This is one weird tribe, who get their kicks from electrocution, poisoning and causing car crashes (and that's when they're in a good mood!). They consider a holiday in the Bermuda Triangle the ultimate and anyone who keeps floating hands as pets has to be a bit tapped.
His eyes danced with delight, and he laughed and told me I was tapped in the head as he mussed up my hair, provoking me to kick him in the butt.
gloss: Unfocused, inattentive; dozy.
pos: adj
tags: Multicultural-London-English
Related words: tapped out
Derived words: untapped
Translations:
topped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having or consisting of a top; covered with a top layer.
pos: adj
Translations:
trashed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more trashed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trashed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I thought, let's go out and get trashed.
Gotta go, my love. Todd's buying pink panty droppers. Oh my, oh me, I'm trashed.
Translations:
junkyard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English junk
Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos
Proto-Germanic *gardaz
Proto-West Germanic *gard
Old English ġeard
Middle English yerd
English yard
English junkyard
From junk + yard.
Inflected forms:
form: junkyards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: junk-yard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: junk yard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A place where rubbish is discarded.
pos: noun
gloss: A business that sells used metal or items.
pos: noun
Related words: junk
Derived words: junkyard dog
Translations:
bonded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Secured by bond.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: bonded duties
gloss: Joined securely, either with adhesive, heat process or pressure.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To save weight, good use is made of resin-bonded glass fibre.
gloss: Synonym of bottled in bond.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Harry Meadows ... was in his late forties, ate too much, chain-smoked cheap cigars, drank bonded Bourbon, and was, in the words of his doctor, the Western world's leading candidate for a huge coronary infarction.
Derived words: bonded debt
bonded labour
bondedly
bondedness
bonded warehouse
bonded winery
double-bonded
fluid-bonded
heterobonded
hydrogen-bonded
nonbonded
single-bonded
spunbonded
triple-bonded
unbonded
Translations:
inglorious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin inglōriōsus. By surface analysis, in- + glorious.
Inflected forms:
form: more inglorious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inglorious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Ignominious; disgraceful.
pos: adj
examples: Oh inglorious league: / Shall we vpon the footing of our land, / Send fayre-play-orders, and make comprimiſe, / Inſinuation, parley, and baſe truce / To Armes Inuaſiue?
Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.
[H]e cast about in his mind for a way to beat a retreat not too inglorious.
The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.
gloss: Not famous; obscure.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Great Julius [Caesar], whom now all the world admires / The more he grew in years, the more inflam’d / With glory, wept that he had liv’d ſo long / Inglorious: but thou yet art not too late.
Derived words: ingloriously
ingloriousness
Translations:
disgraceful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From disgrace + -ful.
Base: disgrace
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more disgraceful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: disgracefuller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
rare
form: most disgraceful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: disgracefullest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
rare
superlative
form: disgracefull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
pos: adj
examples: Fourthly, in the disgracefullest defeat at Hiftaniola that ever this Kingdom suffered in any age or time.
Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ;
From Zoilus to Dennis, no disgracefuller outrage on taste had been committed.
Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
gloss: Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
pos: adj
examples: I dono' where she 's raised, but she do go on de most disgracefullest since she been here.
To a good golfer a shank is disgracefuller than being dead drunk or in jail.
Derived words: disgracefully
disgracefulness
Translations:
goop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1930s, perhaps a variant of goo; compare gloop, and glob.
Inflected forms:
form: goops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gooping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gooped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gooped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A thick, slimy substance; goo.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
examples: The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.
gloss: A silly, stupid, or boorish person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
derogatory
informal
usually
examples: I pointed out that Stiffy, who is pure padded cell from the foundation up, was planning to marry the Rev. H.P. Pinker, himself as pronounced a goop as ever preached the Hivites and Hittites
gloss: To apply a thick, slimy, or goo-like substance.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Airstream, 1977. He showed her ones on eBay that looked like blunt rifle slugs, went for crazy money in any condition at all. The uncle had gooped this one over with white expansion foam, gone gray and dirty now, to stop it leaking and for insulation.
gloss: To stare; gawk.
pos: verb
tags: dated
informal
examples: Young John blushed at being found “gooping” at himself in the glass.
He always said vegetables are grown to be eaten, not gooped at. Even a donkey doesn't want a carrot a foot long. I've always remembered. Of course he never won a thing at the Show.
it was dreadful, it was frightening, to be the sort of woman that, for some unknown reason, all men looked at, all men gooped at, all men—wanted.
Derived words: gook
goopy
Translations:
duologue
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Italic *duō
Latin duo
English duo-
English -logue
English duologue
From duo- + -logue.
Inflected forms:
form: duologues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: duolog
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: A conversation between two persons; dialogue.
pos: noun
examples: This duologue had, of course, left Wilbert Cream a bit out of it, just painted on the backdrop as you might say, and for some moments, knitting his brow, plucking at his moustache, shuffling the feet and allowing the limbs to twitch, he had been giving abundant evidence that in his opinion three was a crowd and that what the leafy glade needed to make it all that a leafy glade should be was a complete absence of Woosters [myself].
gloss: A dramatic performance or piece in the form of a dialogue limited to two speakers.
pos: noun
Translations:
dissension
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dissencioun, from Middle French dissention, discention, from Old French dissension, from Latin dissensio.
Inflected forms:
form: dissensions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: discention
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: dissention
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An act of expressing dissent, especially spoken.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]wherby at the last shuld have sourded discention amonge the people, they beinge seperately enclined towarde theyr naturall souerayne lorde[…]
The natural scenery of America has often been contrasted, in its general features as well as in detail, with the landscape of the Old World—more especially of Europe—and not deeper has been the enthusiasm, than wide the dissension, of the supporters of each region.
In Biblical times the resort to chance was an agreed-upon way of making many decisions because it ended dissension among opposing, often powerful, parties.
Translations:
chit-chat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reduplication of chat. Compare tittle-tattle, flim-flam, pitter-patter, etc.
Inflected forms:
form: chit-chats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chitchat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chit chat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chit-chats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chit-chatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chit-chatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chit-chatted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chitchat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: chit chat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Light conversation; casual talk, usually about trivial matters.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He speaks rapidly, with clarity and with obvious enthusiasm. No time is wasted on idle chit-chat.
“What are you doing down here, father?” “Just having a bit of chitchat with your curious creation.” “Right.”
gloss: Gossip.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To engage in small talk, to discuss unimportant matters.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
Synonyms: claver
small talk
Translations:
thickness
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English thikkenesse, thiknesse, from Old English þicnes (“thickness, viscosity, density, hardness; obscurity, cloud, darkness; thicket; depth, a thick body, anything thick or heavy”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwīnassī (“thickness”), equivalent to thick + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian tsjokkens (“thickness”), Old High German dickinessī, dikkinissi, diknissi (“thickness, density”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English crassitude (“thickness”) from Latin crassitūdō (“thickness”).
Base: thick
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: thicknesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thicknesses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thicknessing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thicknessed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thicknessed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The property of being thick (in dimension).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The thickness of the Earth's crust varies from two to 70 kilometres.
Guitar picks come in different thicknesses.
The newest form of gold created in a lab is the thickness of two atoms, according to a new study. It’s only 0.47 nanometers thick, which is one million times thinner than a human finger nail.
Whether made by a small business or a household name like Scotch, washi tape comes in countless colors, patterns and thicknesses and can be used for just as many adhesive-related projects, from decorating envelopes and empty jars to creating section dividers and adhering photos/ephemera in journals.
gloss: A layer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.
gloss: The quality of being thick (in consistency).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.
gloss: The property of being thick (slow to understand).
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
gloss: The minimum number of planar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To trim (wood) to a consistent thickness using a thickness planer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Even if the parts are thicknessed by machine, check for and plane out any cup with a bench plane.
Synonyms: denseness
slowness
stupidity
thickheadedness
Antonyms: fluidity
liquidity
runniness
thinness
wateriness
mental acuity
mental agility
quick-wittedness
sharpness
Derived words: dry film thickness
half-value thickness
outerthickness
paper-thickness
thicknesser
Translations:
lang: Japanese
word: 鈍さ
roman: nibusa
lang: Spanish
word: torpeza
predaceous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more predaceous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most predaceous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: predacious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Surviving by preying on other animals.
pos: adj
Translations:
gaudy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gaudi, from Old French gaudie, from Medieval Latin gaudia. equivalent to gaud (“ornament, trinket”) + -y.
Alternatively, from Middle English gaudi, gawdy (“yellowish”), from Old French gaude, galde (“weld (the plant)”), from Frankish *walda, from Proto-Germanic *walþō, *walþijō, akin to Old English *weald, *wielde (>Middle English welde, wolde and Anglo-Latin walda (“alum”)), Middle Low German wolde, Middle Dutch woude. More at English weld.
A common claim that the word derives from Antoni Gaudí, designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Família Basilica, is incorrect: the word was in use centuries before Gaudí was born.
Base: gaud
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: gaudier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gaudiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
pos: adj
examples: Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy.
Though, I confeſs, Paris has its Charms; but to me they are like thoſe of a Coquette, gay and gavvdy; they ſerve to amuſe vvith, but a Man vvould not chuſe to be marry'd to them.
The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
A faded, and an ancient dragon he was; and many a wintry storm of rain, snow, sleet, and hail, had changed his colour from a gaudy blue to a faint lack-lustre shade of gray.
A large gaudy, flowing cravat, and an ill-used silk hat, set well back on the wearer's head, completed this somewhat noticeable costume.
Gaudy jewellery might offend some people's sense of style. But former heavyweight champion and grilling-machine entrepreneur George Foreman is philosophical about today's craze for bling-bling.
Not to mention he was draped in those gaudy symbols.
gloss: Fun; merry; festive.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Let's have one other gaudy night.
And for my strange petition I will make
Amends hereafter by some gaudy day
And then, there he was, slim and handsome, and dressed the gaudiest and prettiest you ever saw...
Synonyms: bedizened
blatant
blingish
brash
campy
catchpenny
chichi
chintzy
corny
crass
crude
flaunting
florid
flossy
froufrou
gauche
gaudy
gay
glaring
gross
gussied up
hideous
kitsch
loud
meretricious
naff
obtrusive
ostentatious
pizazzy
pretentious
ritzy
raffish
schlocky
showy
snazzy
splendiferous
tacky
tasteless
tinselly
too much
trinkety
unbecoming
untasteful
vain
whorish
zesty
Antonyms: unadorned
Related words: multicolored
Derived words: gaudify
gaudily
gaudiness
ungaudy
Translations:
santoku
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Japanese 三徳 santoku, the three virtues, from 三 san: three + 徳 -toku: virtue.
Inflected forms:
form: santokus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: santoku
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese knife for general culinary usage.
pos: noun
Translations:
hayseed
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hay + seed.
Compound parts: hay
seed
Inflected forms:
form: hayseeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more hayseed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hayseed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Seeds from grass that has become hay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I lay and lay, and was doctored and doctored,; until at last I drove the physicians from me, and called in an apothecary from Nicolai who had cured an old woman of a malady similar to my own—cured her merely with a little hayseed.
gloss: Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater.
pos: adj
examples: The Corporation of Western Reserve University, with entire unanimity and ombliferous enthusiasm, made you to-day an LL. D. It is no small shakes of a hayseed College, I would have you know.
And when he got his first demand, he shook his head and put a pained expression on his face, and in his most hayseed manner allowed as how things were kind of different now.
Translations:
liverwurst
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Partial calque of German Leberwurst, equivalent to liver + wurst.
Compound parts: liver
wurst
Inflected forms:
form: liverwursts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Spreadable sausage made with liver.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
geezer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From guiser. Compare also German Low German Kieser (“an obstinate person; brute; savage”).
Inflected forms:
form: geezers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male person.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
dated
informal
examples: You are a silly young geezer.
See the hoverboard-riding geezer? This close to payin' a G for a shot of my cousin Calvin's molars.
gloss: Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: Geezers need excitement / If their lives don't provide 'em this, they incite violence / Common sense, simple common sense
He turned out to be a proper geezer who was willing to listen to my proposition that if he took the door at the Ministry, I would pay him £400 a month to mark my cards.
He was a bit of a geezer. Used to box with the Krays when he was a young 'un.
When I'd first met Adam, at work when we were both 23, the fact that he seemed a little rough around the edges appealed to me. He was a bit of a geezer, a joker, one of the lads.
gloss: Term of address for a male.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: Hi, geezer, you alright?
gloss: An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
informal
mildly
sometimes
examples: In the right-hand division lay the two old geezers, as Sandy styled the landlord and his wife.
The technical term for a female geezer is "old broad," but this is irrelevant, as nobody in Hollywood makes films about women over 55.
Why Geezer? Why would a fine arts gallery choose a name that conjures images of a grumpy old guy sitting on the front porch hollering, “get off my lawn”?
gloss: Wife; old woman.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
archaic
slang
examples: He'd flirt and boat, but never wrote / A note to his old geezer.
This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough well, as rough as her family, and they're rough 'uns.
Derived words: geezerbird
geezerdom
geezerish
geezerlike
geezerly
geezer teaser
geezery
Portugeezer
Translations:
wurst
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1890. Borrowed from German Wurst (“sausage, wurst”), from Middle High German wurst, from Old High German wurst, from Proto-West Germanic *wursti (“something turned or twisted”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert-, *werd- (“to turn”).
Akin to Old Saxon worst (“wurst”), Old English weorþan (“to turn, become”). Doublet of wors. Unrelated to worsted (“type of yarn”). More at worth (“to be, become, betide”).
Inflected forms:
form: wursts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: würste
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: würst
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A German- or Austrian-style sausage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If you pick up a package of liverwurst (German wurst, sausage), you may find that it contains, in addition to liver, nonfat dry milk, salt, corn syrup, flavorings (unspecified), sodium erythrobate, sodium nitrate, sodium nitrite, gelatin, and dextrose. The list reads like a list of chemicals for a laboratory experiment! If you wish to avoid “chemicals” in your food, wurst is one of the worst things you can buy.
We had a long walk ahead to Stuttgart. We stopped to eat at a little meat market just outside Augsburg. I bought a loaf of bread and chose a couple of packages of wurst. It really was good.
Although the supermarket tannoy was bravely broadcasting Rigoletto, its meat counter was thick with wurst and its wine shelves loaded with Liebfraumilch.
Sure, the map says it’s Italy, but after walking through the centuries-old market at Piazza Erbe (Obstplatz) and seeing one too many suspiciously Teutonic-looking locals munching wurst, you might think you’ve crossed the Austrian border.
Beyond lay the stately drab edifices of East Germany’s showpiece, now thronged with würste and sauerkraut sellers catering to the crowds.
At an open-air flea market, we looked for Nazi memorabilia while munching wurst and drinking beer.
In summer, you're welcomed into a flower-decked garden set against a backdrop of ancient vineyards. You can fill up your platter with some of the best wursts and roast meats (especially the delectable pork), along with freshly made salads.
[…] the seared loin and boiled potatoes, recipes rehearsed into routine. She worries over them now as a widow over rosary beads. Links of würste, quartered onion.
Leaving Munich the next day they headed west to Langsberg where they refuelled with würste and sauerkraut before pedalling south along the banks of the river Lech to Schongau where they would spend the night, a distance of eighty-five kilometres.
Translations:
slave-girl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slave-girls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female slave.
pos: noun
gloss: A female required to perform sexual acts, a sex slave.
pos: noun
Translations:
bushwhack
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bush + whack.
Compound parts: bush
whack
Inflected forms:
form: bushwhacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bushwhacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bushwhacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bushwhacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.
pos: verb
gloss: To fight, as a guerrilla, especially in wooded country.
pos: verb
gloss: To ambush.
pos: verb
Related words: bushwhacking
bushwhacker
Translations:
psychiatric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From psychiatry + -ic or psych- + -iatric.
Base: psychiatry
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to, psychiatry.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.
Translations:
conceptional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Old Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
▲
Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq.
Latin concipiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin conceptiōlbor.
Old French conceptionbor.
Middle English concepcioun
English conception
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 conceptional
From conception + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more conceptional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conceptional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to conception.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to a concept, idea, or thought. (More often, conceptual.)
pos: adj
Derived words: conceptionalist
conceptionally
periconceptional
postconceptional
preconceptional
Translations:
unrequited
Part of speech: adj
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 requited
English unrequited
From un- + requited.
Inflected forms:
form: more unrequited
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unrequited
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid.
pos: adj
examples: His expressions of love went unrequited.
Enough for me that I stand on the privilege of a free Scottish-man, and will brook no insult unreturned, and no injury unrequited.
ONE of my comrades there—another of those victims of eighteen years of unrequited toil and blighted hopes—was one of the gentlest spirits that ever bore its patient cross in a weary exile: […]
To her mind, a girl who would tell of the unrequited love of a man for herself, was unspeakably base.
Translations:
highlander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English highland
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 highlander
From highland + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: highlanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who inhabits the Scottish Highlands.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: Any person who lives in mountainous or hilly terrain.
pos: noun
examples: He gave credence to the long-standing impression that southern highlanders were as a whole 'a hardy race of European dissenters' of very different stock from other southern colonists…. As backwoodsmen and highlanders, they opposed slavery formally, through abolitionist organizations, newspapers, or institutions of higher education….
Other essayists, however, detect significant distinctions between highlander and lowlander—differences in racial attitudes (abolitionist or rabid racist), in the types of work that African Americans performed, and in the extent to which perceptions of whiteness shaped how outsiders understood the region and acted toward it.
gloss: The Igorot people, referring to them originating from the Cordillera Mountain Range.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
Antonyms: lowlander
Derived words: Shanghailander
Translations:
scabies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English scabies, scabiez, from Latin scabiēs (“scurf; scab, mange, itch”), from scabō (“scratch, scrape”, verb).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An infestation of parasitic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei, causing intense itching caused by the mites burrowing into the skin of humans and other animals. It is easily transmissible from human to human; secondary skin infection may occur.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Further, just as the discovery of the cause of scabies proved the absurdity of many of the old prescriptions for the prevention and treatment of that disease; so the discovery of the cause of splenic fever, and other such maladies, has given a new direction to prophylactic and curative measures against the worst scourges of humanity.
Translations:
rubella
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin rubellus (“reddish”), diminutive of ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A mild disease caused by the Rubella virus infecting the respiratory tract, and characterised by a rash of pink dots, fever and swollen lymph nodes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: At issue is the so-called MMR vaccine, which immunizes children against measles, mumps and rubella, three potentially deadly diseases that were once common and have been mostly wiped out.
They have congenital rubella syndrome, which they acquired during an outbreak of the rubella virus, or German measles.
Translations:
murk
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English merke, mirke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“dark, gloomy, evil”) and Old Norse myrkr (“dark, murky”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”). Cognate Danish mørk (“dark”), Norwegian mørk (“dark”), Swedish mörk (“dark”), Icelandic myrkur (“dark”), as also Albanian murg (“dark”), Proto-Slavic *morkъ (“darkness”), Lithuanian márgas (“multicolored”), murzinas (“dirty, spoiled”), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, “dark”).
Inflected forms:
form: murker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: murkest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mirk
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: mark
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: murks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: murking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: murked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: murked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Dark, murky.
pos: adj
examples: He cannot see through the mantle murk.
gloss: Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […]in murk and occidental damp
O great star disappear’d—O the black murk that hides the star!
And yet, tiny sparks of hope gleam in this dim existence, like pearls in the murk.
gloss: To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...
Translations:
suspense
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English suspense, suspence, from Anglo-Norman suspens (as in en suspens) and Old French suspens, from Latin suspēnsus.
Inflected forms:
form: suspenses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: suspence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: For thee the Fates, severely kind, ordain / A cool suspense from pleasure and from pain; / Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repose; / No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows.
gloss: The pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Ten days the prophet in suspense remain'd.
I believe that, to the young, suspense is the most intolerable suffering. Active misery always brings with it its own power of endurance.
gloss: A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A deadline.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
examples: She sent us that assignment with a suspense of noon tomorrow.
Derived words: in suspense
nonsuspense
suspense account
suspenseful
suspenseless
suspenser
suspensive
suspensory
Translations:
tant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Clipping of tantalum capacitor.
Inflected forms:
form: tants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tantalum capacitor.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Note that like 'tants' these are polarized and must be connected to the circuit the right way round, the lead marked 'H' to the positive side of the circuit; failure to do so can lead to a small explosion!
Translations:
eldest
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Inflected forms:
form: eldests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: (of a player) Receiving cards from the dealer first, before any other players.
pos: adj
gloss: (of a hand) Having higher, or superior cards.
pos: adj
examples: Each player draws a card, and the lowest becomes eldest hand.
gloss: The eldest child in a family, or individual in a group.
pos: noun
Synonyms: oldest
Derived words: dwarf eldest daughter
Translations:
discouraged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more discouraged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most discouraged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having lost confidence or hope; dejected; disheartened.
pos: adj
examples: She felt discouraged after several unsuccessful interviews.
The coach warned the team not to become discouraged.
deeply discouraged
easily discouraged
feel discouraged
gloss: unrecommended; unprescribed.
pos: adj
Derived words: discouragedly
undiscouraged
Translations:
lang: French
word: déconseillé
lang: Portuguese
word: desaconselhado
rarefied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more rarefied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rarefied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rarified
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Distant from the lives and everyday concerns of ordinary people; esoteric, exclusive, select.
pos: adj
examples: Philosophical debates can be quite rarefied.
The country gentry of old time lived in a rarefied social air: dotted apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below.
Of course, Beaumont was the real boss; but he lived in the rarefied atmosphere of some Olympian height from which he could distinguish nothing smaller than an international crisis or a split in the Cabinet.
I'm not taking the stand of any moralist. I have done the whole S&M route: the costumes and all, so I'm not talking from any rarified point — that's very important. That I have experienced it, that I have lived it.
One day, she had to present the children, dressing them formally and introducing them by their full titles, ahead of high tea with extended family. It had been a crash course into the rarefied world in which some Norland charges live.
gloss: Elevated in style or nature, sublime; of high intellectual or moral value.
pos: adj
gloss: Less dense than usual; thin.
pos: adj
examples: The air at high altitudes at the top of mountains is rarefied.
Derived words: nonrarefied
ultrararefied
unrarefied
Translations:
penance
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English penaunce, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French peneance, from Latin paenitentia (“repentance, penitence”). Doublet of penitence.
Inflected forms:
form: penances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: penances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: penancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: penanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: penanced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Quoth he, "The man hath penance done, / And penance more will do."
gloss: A sacrament in some Christian churches that involves penitence (remorse plus restitution via prayer).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any instrument of self-punishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: repentance
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: pain; sorrow; suffering
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To impose penance; to punish.
pos: verb
examples: She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, / Some demon mistress, or the demon's self.
Synonyms: penitence
atonement
Derived words: penanceless
unpenanced
Translations: