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word: magazine word_type: noun expansion: magazine (plural magazines) forms: form: magazines tags: plural wikipedia: magazine etymology_text: Borrowed from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic مَخَازِن pl (maḵāzin), plural of مَخ...
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word: exile word_type: noun expansion: exile (countable and uncountable, plural exiles) forms: form: exiles tags: plural wikipedia: exile etymology_text: From Middle English exil, borrowed from Old French essil, exil, from Latin exsilium, exilium (“state of exile”), derived from exsul, exul (“exil...
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word: exile word_type: verb expansion: exile (third-person singular simple present exiles, present participle exiling, simple past and past participle exiled) forms: form: exiles tags: present singular third-person form: exiling tags: participle present form: exiled tag...
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word: lumber word_type: noun expansion: lumber (usually uncountable, plural lumbers) forms: form: lumbers tags: plural wikipedia: lumber etymology_text: Exact origin unknown. The earliest recorded reference was to heavy, useless objects such as old, discarded furniture. Perhaps from the verb lumbe...
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word: lumber word_type: verb expansion: lumber (third-person singular simple present lumbers, present participle lumbering, simple past and past participle lumbered) forms: form: lumbers tags: present singular third-person form: lumbering tags: participle present form: lu...
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word: poo word_type: noun expansion: poo (countable and uncountable, plural poos) forms: form: poos tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: See pooh. senses_examples: text: Poo... feces. ref: 1960, Harold Wentworth et al., Dictionary of American Slang, page 401 type: quotation ...
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word: poo word_type: verb expansion: poo (third-person singular simple present poos, present participle pooing, simple past and past participle pooed) forms: form: poos tags: present singular third-person form: pooing tags: participle present form: pooed tags: parti...
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word: poo word_type: intj expansion: poo forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: See pooh. senses_examples: text: Petulant and pouty, Stephanie herself says things like, ‘Oh, poo.’ ref: 1986 January 12, Chicago Tribune, page 3c type: quotation senses_categories: senses_glosses: Alternative ...
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word: poo word_type: noun expansion: poo (usually uncountable, plural poos) forms: form: poos tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Clipping of shampoo. senses_examples: text: Why I Cut Down on the “Poo”: A Note from Melissa […] People are saying no to “poo”—shampoo, that is. A very famou...
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word: poo word_type: noun expansion: poo (plural poos) forms: form: poos tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From poodle. senses_examples: text: To date, the only Poos who have received any serious attention from the AKC are the Labradoodle (Labrador Retriever and Poodle) and the Cockap...
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word: xiphias word_type: noun expansion: xiphias (plural xiphias) forms: form: xiphias tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from translingual Xiphias or Latin xiphiās (“swordfish”). senses_examples: text: S. Malpighi having dissected the Head of a Xiphias or Sword Fish, which ha...
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word: Cebuano word_type: name expansion: Cebuano forms: wikipedia: Cebuano language etymology_text: From Spanish cebuano, from Cebú (“Cebu”) + -ano (“-an”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A language spoken in the Philippines in and near the province of Cebu. senses_topics:
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word: Cebuano word_type: adj expansion: Cebuano (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: Cebuano language etymology_text: From Spanish cebuano, from Cebú (“Cebu”) + -ano (“-an”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Pertaining to the Cebuano language or to its speakers. senses_topics:
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word: Sioux word_type: name expansion: Sioux pl (plural only) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From French Sioux, shortening of Nadouessioux, from Ojibwe naadawesiwag (“little snakes”), which could refer to the massasauga snake (Sistrurus catenatus), a small rattlesnake. senses_examples: senses_categories...
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word: Sioux word_type: name expansion: Sioux forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From French Sioux, shortening of Nadouessioux, from Ojibwe naadawesiwag (“little snakes”), which could refer to the massasauga snake (Sistrurus catenatus), a small rattlesnake. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses...
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word: Sioux word_type: name expansion: Sioux forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From French Sioux, shortening of Nadouessioux, from Ojibwe naadawesiwag (“little snakes”), which could refer to the massasauga snake (Sistrurus catenatus), a small rattlesnake. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses...
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word: cant word_type: noun expansion: cant (usually uncountable, plural cants) forms: form: cants tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Latin cantō probably via Old Northern French canter (“sing, tell”). Doublet of chant. senses_examples: text: He had the look of a prince, but the ca...
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word: cant word_type: verb expansion: cant (third-person singular simple present cants, present participle canting, simple past and past participle canted) forms: form: cants tags: present singular third-person form: canting tags: participle present form: canted tags: ...
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word: cant word_type: noun expansion: cant (plural cants) forms: form: cants tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English cant (“edge, brink”), from Middle Dutch cant (“point, side, edge”) (Modern Dutch kant (“side, edge”)), ultimately of Celtic or Latin origin. Related to Medieval...
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word: cant word_type: verb expansion: cant (third-person singular simple present cants, present participle canting, simple past and past participle canted) forms: form: cants tags: present singular third-person form: canting tags: participle present form: canted tags: ...
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word: cant word_type: verb expansion: cant (third-person singular simple present cants, present participle canting, simple past and past participle canted) forms: form: cants tags: present singular third-person form: canting tags: participle present form: canted tags: ...
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word: cant word_type: noun expansion: cant (plural cants) forms: form: cants tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Unknown, but compare Provençal cantel (“corner, piece”) or Old Northern French cantel (“piece broken off”). The verb is attested from the 15th century, and the noun from the 16th. ...
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word: cant word_type: adj expansion: cant (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English cant, kaunt, presumably from Middle Low German *kant, perhaps a slang word related to kant (“edge, rim”), from Medieval Latin canthus. Attested from the 13th or 14th century. senses_examples: se...
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word: eater word_type: noun expansion: eater (plural eaters) forms: form: eaters tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English eter, etere, etter, from Old English etere; equivalent to eat + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix) (food suitable for eating). senses_example...
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word: alumnus word_type: noun expansion: alumnus (plural alumni or alumnuses, feminine alumna) forms: form: alumni tags: plural form: alumnuses tags: plural form: alumna tags: feminine wikipedia: alumnus etymology_text: Learned borrowing from Latin alumnus (“foster child, n...
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word: pollex word_type: noun expansion: pollex (plural pollices) forms: form: pollices tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Latin pollex. senses_examples: text: We came to know the curious roadside species, Hitchhiking Man, Homo pollex of science, with all its many sub-spec...
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word: Marshallese word_type: name expansion: Marshallese forms: wikipedia: Marshallese etymology_text: From Marshall (“Marshall Islands”) + -ese. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: The Austronesian language of the Marshall Islands. senses_topics:
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word: Marshallese word_type: noun expansion: Marshallese (countable and uncountable, plural Marshallese) forms: form: Marshallese tags: plural wikipedia: Marshallese etymology_text: From Marshall (“Marshall Islands”) + -ese. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: An inhabitant of ...
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word: Marshallese word_type: adj expansion: Marshallese (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: Marshallese etymology_text: From Marshall (“Marshall Islands”) + -ese. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Of or pertaining to the Marshall Islands, its people, or its language. senses_topics:
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word: dumpling word_type: noun expansion: dumpling (plural dumplings) forms: form: dumplings tags: plural wikipedia: North Dumpling Island en:dumpling etymology_text: A folk word, first attested in c. 1600s, apparently from a Norfolk dialect, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from some Low German wor...
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word: earthworm word_type: noun expansion: earthworm (plural earthworms) forms: form: earthworms tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English erthe-worm, erþe-worm, erþe worm (also as worm of þe erthe, worm of þe erþe), equivalent to earth + worm. Compare Saterland Frisian Äidwurm ...
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word: monsoon word_type: noun expansion: monsoon (plural monsoons) forms: form: monsoons tags: plural wikipedia: monsoon etymology_text: From Portuguese monção and Dutch moesson, from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim, “season”), from وَسَمَ (wasama, “to mark, to brand”). senses_examples: text: Floods...
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word: criterion word_type: noun expansion: criterion (plural criteria) forms: form: criteria tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion, “a test, a means of judging”), from κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”); see...
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word: glean word_type: verb expansion: glean (third-person singular simple present gleans, present participle gleaning, simple past and past participle gleaned) forms: form: gleans tags: present singular third-person form: gleaning tags: participle present form: gleaned ...
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word: glean word_type: noun expansion: glean (plural gleans) forms: form: gleans tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English glenen, from Anglo-Norman glener, from Late Latin glen(n)ō (“make a collection”), from Gaulish, possibly from Proto-Celtic *glanos. Compare French glaner. s...
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word: glean word_type: noun expansion: glean forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: cleaning; afterbirth senses_topics:
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word: antenna word_type: noun expansion: antenna (plural antennae or antennas) forms: form: antennae tags: plural form: antennas tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Latin antenna, antemna (“yard, sailyard; pole”). First used in this sense as a Latin word in the 15th century a...
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word: patress word_type: noun expansion: patress (plural patresses) forms: form: patresses tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Alteration of pateras, from Latin patera (“dish, saucer”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: an adapting plate or mounting used to fix an object...
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word: crocodile word_type: noun expansion: crocodile (plural crocodiles) forms: form: crocodiles tags: plural wikipedia: Crocodile dilemma etymology_text: From Middle English cocodrill, cokadrill, cokedril, from Old French cocodril (modern French crocodile), from Medieval Latin cocodrillus, from L...
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word: crocodile word_type: verb expansion: crocodile (third-person singular simple present crocodiles, present participle crocodiling, simple past and past participle crocodiled) forms: form: crocodiles tags: present singular third-person form: crocodiling tags: participle pres...
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word: wort word_type: noun expansion: wort (plural worts) forms: form: worts tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: PIE word *wréh₂ds From Middle English wort, wurt, wyrte (“any herb or plant; herb or plant used as food or medicine; (specifically) cabbage or vegetable of the genus Brassica; (ch...
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word: wort word_type: noun expansion: wort (countable and uncountable, plural worts) forms: form: worts tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English wort, worte (“infusion of grain (probably malted barley) for brewing ale or beer; unfermented or incompletely fermented beer; infusio...
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word: heir word_type: noun expansion: heir (plural heirs, feminine heiress) forms: form: heirs tags: plural form: heiress tags: feminine wikipedia: Inheritance etymology_text: From Middle English heir, from Anglo-Norman eir, heir, from Latin hērēs. senses_examples: text: My broth...
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word: heir word_type: verb expansion: heir (third-person singular simple present heirs, present participle heiring, simple past and past participle heired) forms: form: heirs tags: present singular third-person form: heiring tags: participle present form: heired tags: ...
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word: fish finger word_type: noun expansion: fish finger (plural fish fingers) forms: form: fish fingers tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: “Birds Eye fish fingers,” he said, “are made from cod, and when, a short while back there was talk of some strange deep se...
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word: cot word_type: noun expansion: cot (plural cots) forms: form: cots tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A simp...
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word: cot word_type: noun expansion: cot (plural cots) forms: form: cots tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutǭ (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), from ...
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word: cot word_type: noun expansion: cot (plural cots) forms: form: cots tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Irish coite, coit (“small boat”), possibly from Medieval Latin cattia (“pan”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A small, crudely-formed boat. senses_topics:...
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word: cot word_type: noun expansion: cot (plural cots) forms: form: cots tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From dialectal cot, cote, partly from Middle English cot (“matted wool”), from Old English *cot, *cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“woolen fabric, wool covering”); and partly from Mi...
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word: cot word_type: noun expansion: cot (plural cots) forms: form: cots tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Contraction of cot-quean. senses_examples: text: You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down hi...
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word: vulnus word_type: noun expansion: vulnus (plural vulnera) forms: form: vulnera tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Latin senses_examples: text: But for the veterans in the Pannonian legions, their vulnera were no longer their tokens of honour, but an indication of the severity of ...
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word: opusculum word_type: noun expansion: opusculum (plural opuscula) forms: form: opuscula tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Latin opusculum. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: An opuscule; a short work. senses_topics:
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word: defunct word_type: adj expansion: defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct) forms: form: more defunct tags: comparative form: most defunct tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, disc...
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word: defunct word_type: verb expansion: defunct (third-person singular simple present defuncts, present participle defuncting, simple past and past participle defuncted) forms: form: defuncts tags: present singular third-person form: defuncting tags: participle present form:...
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word: defunct word_type: noun expansion: defunct forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”). senses_examples: text: A small tablet is fixt near the Altar, upon wᶜʰ the friends of yᵉ defunct lay their offerings in mony according...
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word: autopsy word_type: noun expansion: autopsy (plural autopsies) forms: form: autopsies tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ (autopsíā, “seeing with one's own eyes”). senses_examples: text: The autopsy revealed he had died of multip...
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word: autopsy word_type: verb expansion: autopsy (third-person singular simple present autopsies, present participle autopsying, simple past and past participle autopsied) forms: form: autopsies tags: present singular third-person form: autopsying tags: participle present for...
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word: pelta word_type: noun expansion: pelta (plural peltas or peltae) forms: form: peltas tags: plural form: peltae tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Latin , a shield, from Ancient Greek πέλτη (péltē, “shield”). senses_examples: text: Xenophon also mentions bronze peltae,...
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word: xenium word_type: noun expansion: xenium (plural xenia) forms: form: xenia tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Latin xenium. senses_examples: text: At Rochester the Bishop received a xenium or pension on St. Andrew's Day from the convent. ref: 1872, Mackenzie E...
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word: Quechua word_type: noun expansion: Quechua (plural Quechuas or Quechua) forms: form: Quechuas tags: plural form: Quechua tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Spanish, from Quechua qhichwa (literally “temperate valley”). senses_examples: text: The Quechuas, a tribe of th...
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word: Quechua word_type: name expansion: Quechua forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Spanish, from Quechua qhichwa (literally “temperate valley”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: The language spoken by these people. senses_topics:
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word: least word_type: det expansion: least forms: form: less tags: comparative wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English leste, lest, last, from Old English lǣst, a contraction of læsast, læsest, lærest (“least”), from Proto-Germanic *laisistaz (“smallest; least”), related to Old English læ...
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word: least word_type: adv expansion: least (negative superlative) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English leste, lest, last, from Old English lǣst, a contraction of læsast, læsest, lærest (“least”), from Proto-Germanic *laisistaz (“smallest; least”), related to Old English læs (“less”). Cogna...
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word: least word_type: noun expansion: least (plural leasts) forms: form: leasts tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English leste, lest, last, from Old English lǣst, a contraction of læsast, læsest, lærest (“least”), from Proto-Germanic *laisistaz (“smallest; least”), related to ...
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word: least word_type: adj expansion: least forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English leste, lest, last, from Old English lǣst, a contraction of læsast, læsest, lærest (“least”), from Proto-Germanic *laisistaz (“smallest; least”), related to Old English læs (“less”). Cognate with Old Frisian lei...
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word: least word_type: prep_phrase expansion: least forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Contraction of at least. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: At least. 2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 79 2019 December,...
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word: tarsand word_type: noun expansion: tarsand (plural tarsands) forms: form: tarsands tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Land with sand containing tar. senses_topics:
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word: random word_type: noun expansion: random (countable and uncountable, plural randoms) forms: form: randoms tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From earlier randon, from Middle English randoun, raundon, from Old French randon, from randir (“to run, gallop”) (whence French randonnée (“long...
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word: random word_type: adj expansion: random (comparative more random, superlative most random) forms: form: more random tags: comparative form: most random tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: From earlier randon, from Middle English randoun, raundon, from Old French randon,...
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word: blad word_type: noun expansion: blad (plural blads) forms: form: blads tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Apparently from a dialectal variant of blade. Compare Danish blad (“leaf”), Swedish blad (“leaf”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A portfolio. A bl...
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word: recent word_type: adj expansion: recent (comparative more recent, superlative most recent) forms: form: more recent tags: comparative form: most recent tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Latin recēns (genitive recentis). senses_examples: text: Bats ...
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word: recent word_type: noun expansion: recent (plural recents) forms: form: recents tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Latin recēns (genitive recentis). senses_examples: text: Obviously, the first time you launch this app, your Recents list is empty. ref: 2012, Jas...
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word: snooker word_type: noun expansion: snooker (countable and uncountable, plural snookers) forms: form: snookers tags: plural wikipedia: snooker etymology_text: senses_examples: text: She put her opponent in a snooker. type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: A cue spo...
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word: snooker word_type: verb expansion: snooker (third-person singular simple present snookers, present participle snookering, simple past and past participle snookered) forms: form: snookers tags: present singular third-person form: snookering tags: participle present form:...
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word: ecologist word_type: noun expansion: ecologist (plural ecologists) forms: form: ecologists tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From eco- + -logist. The less common sense “environmentalist” might be from association with deep ecology, or influenced by Romance-language equivalents such as...
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word: Venetia word_type: name expansion: Venetia forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Latin Venetia, from Venetī + -ia. Doublet of Venice. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Synonym of Veneto, a region of Italy, on the mainland near Venice. senses_topics:
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word: Venetia word_type: name expansion: Venetia forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Uncertain. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A female given name from Latin used since the late Middle Ages. senses_topics:
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word: sunup word_type: noun expansion: sunup (countable and uncountable, plural sunups) forms: form: sunups tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: sun + up senses_examples: text: “Shagbark, that was risky on your part; even where it lies it is much closer than I like, for we shall all have...
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word: watch word_type: noun expansion: watch (plural watches) forms: form: watches tags: plural wikipedia: Watch (disambiguation) watch etymology_text: As a noun, from Middle English wacche, from Old English wæċċe. See below for verb form. senses_examples: text: More people today carry a w...
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word: watch word_type: verb expansion: watch (third-person singular simple present watches, present participle watching, simple past and past participle watched) forms: form: watches tags: present singular third-person form: watching tags: participle present form: watched...
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word: sort word_type: noun expansion: sort (plural sorts) forms: form: sorts tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (= Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form ...
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word: sort word_type: verb expansion: sort (third-person singular simple present sorts, present participle sorting, simple past and past participle sorted) forms: form: sorts tags: present singular third-person form: sorting tags: participle present form: sorted tags: ...
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word: shortage word_type: noun expansion: shortage (countable and uncountable, plural shortages) forms: form: shortages tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From short + -age. senses_examples: text: The admirable smoothness of the riding also reflected the greatest credit on those who, d...
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word: appendix word_type: noun expansion: appendix (plural appendices or appendixes) forms: form: appendices tags: plural form: appendixes tags: plural wikipedia: appendix etymology_text: Borrowed from Latin appendix. senses_examples: text: idleness is an appendix to nobility; th...
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word: lasagna word_type: noun expansion: lasagna (countable and uncountable, plural lasagnas or lasagne) forms: form: lasagnas tags: plural form: lasagne tags: plural wikipedia: lasagna etymology_text: From Italian lasagna (and its plural lasagne), possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, ...
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word: mater word_type: noun expansion: mater (plural maters or matres) forms: form: maters tags: plural form: matres tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Latin māter (“mother”), partly via Late Middle English matere. Doublet of mata and mother. Ancestor of matrix. senses_examp...
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word: mater word_type: noun expansion: mater (plural maters) forms: form: maters tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From mate + -er. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Someone or something that mates. senses_topics: biology natural-sciences
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word: mater word_type: noun expansion: mater (plural maters) forms: form: maters tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: See 'mater. senses_examples: text: "A mater sandwich would be better." Trixie said, "but I'll take it if that's all you got." As if we were woefully deprived of food. So ...
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word: luft word_type: noun expansion: luft (uncountable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From German Luft (“air”). Doublet of lift and loft. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Space made for a castled king to give it a flight square to prevent a back-rank mate. senses_topics: board-...
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word: mug word_type: noun expansion: mug (plural mugs) forms: form: mugs tags: plural wikipedia: Nicoline van der Sijs northern English etymology_text: Early 16th century (originally Scots and northern English, denoting "earthenware, pot, jug"), of unknown origin, perhaps from North Germanic (co...
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word: mug word_type: verb expansion: mug (third-person singular simple present mugs, present participle mugging, simple past and past participle mugged) forms: form: mugs tags: present singular third-person form: mugging tags: participle present form: mugged tags: p...
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word: mug word_type: adj expansion: mug (comparative mugger, superlative muggest) forms: form: mugger tags: comparative form: muggest tags: superlative wikipedia: Nicoline van der Sijs northern English etymology_text: Early 16th century (originally Scots and northern English, denotin...
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word: mug word_type: noun expansion: mug (plural mugs) forms: form: mugs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Informal variant of motherfucker. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug") senses_topics:
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word: couch word_type: noun expansion: couch (plural couches) forms: form: couches tags: plural wikipedia: Josef Hoffmann William Kay Blacklock etymology_text: From Middle English couche, cowche, from Old French couche, from the verb (see below). Doublet of cwtch. senses_examples: text: At...
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word: couch word_type: verb expansion: couch (third-person singular simple present couches, present participle couching, simple past and past participle couched) forms: form: couches tags: present singular third-person form: couching tags: participle present form: couched...
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word: couch word_type: noun expansion: couch (uncountable) forms: wikipedia: Josef Hoffmann William Kay Blacklock etymology_text: From a variant of quitch, from Middle English quich, quyke, from Old English cwice. senses_examples: text: The first field it did was one on which Swedes had been roughly ...
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word: scenario word_type: noun expansion: scenario (plural scenarios or (rare) scenari) forms: form: scenarios tags: plural form: scenari tags: plural rare wikipedia: etymology_text: From Italian scenario (a derivation of scena (“scene”)), from Latin scaena. See scene, scenary. se...
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word: clitoris word_type: noun expansion: clitoris (plural clitorises or clitorides) forms: form: clitorises tags: plural form: clitorides tags: plural wikipedia: clitoris etymology_text: From post-classical Latin clitoris (16th century), or its source, Koine Greek κλειτορίς (kleitorís...
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word: widespread word_type: adj expansion: widespread (comparative widerspread or more widespread, superlative widestspread or most widespread) forms: form: widerspread tags: comparative form: more widespread tags: comparative form: widestspread tags: superlative form: mo...
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word: knock about word_type: verb expansion: knock about (third-person singular simple present knocks about, present participle knocking about, simple past and past participle knocked about) forms: form: knocks about tags: present singular third-person form: knocking about tags: pa...